Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 645 OEM
Summary
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 645 OEM |
163 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. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 645 OEM | |
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GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | GK106 () |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 2,540 million |
Shaders | 1600 | vs | 576 |
Compute Units | 20 | vs | 3 |
Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 824 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
TMUs | 80 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 645 OEM | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 1195 MHz
4780 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 645 OEM | |
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TDP | 228 watts | vs | 65 watts |
Release Date | 30 Jun 2010 | vs | 22 Apr 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better