ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 96.00GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +77%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Dec 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

12

1600

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Bonaire

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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