GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon HD 5870
Summary
GeForce GTX 1080
703%
Radeon HD 5870
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 | |
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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 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5X | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective | vs | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1080 | | Radeon HD 5870 | |
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TDP | 180 watts | vs | 188 watts |
Release Date | 27 May 2016 | vs | 23 Sep 2009 |
GeForce GTX 1080
102.80 GP/s
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080
257.10 GT/s
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080
320.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080
8228.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1080
30160
Radeon HD 5870
4290
Points (higher is better)