AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 76.48GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +100%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

76.48GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1600

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

108W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Juniper

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Juniper XT (215-0754013)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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