ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
Lower TDP (195W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2.72 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+19%
3.25 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Apr 2013
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1006 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
1536
80
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
195W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GK104
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
