GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 |
| 48 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 603% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080
The GeForce GTX 1080 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1080 | | Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP104 (GP104-400-A1) | vs | Cypress (Cypress XT) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,200 million | vs | 2,154 million |
| Shaders | 2560 | vs | 1600 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 1607 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 160 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1080 | | Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5X | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective | vs | 1195 MHz
4780 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1080 | | Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 180 watts | vs | 228 watts |
| Release Date | 27 May 2016 | vs | 30 Jun 2010 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)