Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Summary
Radeon HD 5870
325%
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
| Around 225% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 240 OEM |
| 68 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870
The Radeon HD 5870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTS 240 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | G92B (G92-240-B1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 260 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 112 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTS 240 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTS 240 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 188 watts | vs | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 1 Jul 2009 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
10.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
37.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
70.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
362.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
4290
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
1320
Points (higher is better)