ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2010
Dec 2013
Generation
Evergreen
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
104.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
14
Shading Units
1600
896
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Bonaire
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Bonaire XT(215-0839039)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
228W
85W
Suggested PSU
550 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.