ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +649%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jul 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1600

Shading Units

112

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

188W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92B

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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