Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 680
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 680 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 149% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 680
The GeForce GTX 680 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 680 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | GK104 (GK104-400-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 294 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 3,540 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1006 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 680 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1195 MHz
4780 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 680 | |
|---|
| TDP | 228 watts | vs | 195 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Jun 2010 | vs | 22 Mar 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)