Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Jun 2010
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
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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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

53 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.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870 Mac EditionRadeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders1600vs1600
Compute Units20vs20
Core clock850 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870 Mac EditionRadeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1195 MHz
4780 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870 Mac EditionRadeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
TDP228 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date30 Jun 2010vs14 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
    27.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
    68.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
    153.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better