ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 275 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 127.0GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (188W vs 219W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +303%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 275

0.674 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GTX 275

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jan 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1134 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

127.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1600

Shading Units

240

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

28

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.72 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.64 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

673.9 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

188W

TDP

219W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GT200B

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G200-105-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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