ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC 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

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC 's Advantages

Lower TDP (44W vs 228W)

Score

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon X1700 FSC

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

695 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.24GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.348 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.348 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

44W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV535

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV535 FSC

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

131 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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