ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 133.9GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (188W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +149%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Mar 2010

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1600

Shading Units

448

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

188W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GF100

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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