Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 780

Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5870
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    320%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

62 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 220% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 780

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780

The GeForce GTX 780 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GTX 780
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1600vs2304
Compute Units20vs12
Core clock850 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs80vs192

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GTX 780
TDP188 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date23 Sep 2009vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290
  • GeForce GTX 780
    13770

Points (higher is better)