ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +199%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Jul 2010

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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