ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2010
May 2012
Generation
Evergreen
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
1502 MHz
Base Clock
—
915 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1019 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1600
1536
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
32.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
130.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
3.130 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
130.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
GK104
GPU Variant
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
GK104-355-A2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
228W
300W
Suggested PSU
550 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
—
3.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.