NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2012
Jun 2010
Generation
GeForce 600
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
915 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1195 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
153.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1344
1600
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
27.44 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
109.8 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.634 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
109.8 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GK104
Cypress
GPU Variant
GK104-325-A2
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
Kepler
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
334 mm²

Board Design

TDP
170W
228W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
N/A
CUDA
3.0
-
Shader Model
5.1
5.0