AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (115W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +38%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

20

-

896

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

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1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

228W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Cypress

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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