ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand 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 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +507%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

0.448 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Jul 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.60 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

448.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

125W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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