ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1592 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +12263%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

0.022 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Dec 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

8

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G98

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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