ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 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 96.19GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (160W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +160%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Sep 2011

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1600

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

188W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF114

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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