ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +1260%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Dec 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

2

-

1600

Shading Units

160

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Caicos

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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