Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 760

Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5870
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    200%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 100% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

The GeForce GTX 760 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GTX 760
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsGK104 (GK104-225-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1600vs1152
Compute Units20vs6
Core clock850 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs96

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GTX 760
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870GeForce GTX 760
TDP188 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date23 Sep 2009vs25 Jun 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290
  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600

Points (higher is better)