ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +470%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jul 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1600

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

188W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GT200B

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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