GeForce 7950 GT AGP vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP 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
GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 7 AGP
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1600
24
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
228W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x Molex
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G71
GPU Name
Cypress
G71-GT2-H-N-A2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.278 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
196 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
5.0