Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
187 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN Z . |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN Z |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTX TITAN Z | |
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GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | GK110B (GK110-430-B1) |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 561 mm² |
Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 7,080 million |
Shaders | 1600 | vs | 2880 |
Compute Units | 20 | vs | 15 |
Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 705 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 48 |
TMUs | 80 | vs | 240 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTX TITAN Z | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit x2 |
Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTX TITAN Z | |
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TDP | 188 watts | vs | 375 watts |
Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 28 May 2014 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
84.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
338.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
672.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
8122.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better