ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI 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
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+5944%
2.72 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Aug 2008
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1195 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1600
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.80 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G96C
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
