Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 275
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 275 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTX 275 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | GT200B (G200-105-B3) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 470 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 240 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 633 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 28 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTX 275 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 448 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1134 MHz
2268 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 896 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | GeForce GTX 275 | |
|---|
| TDP | 188 watts | vs | 219 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 15 Jan 2009 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 275
17.70 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 275
50.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 275
127.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 275
673.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better