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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2010 Jul 2011
Generation Evergreen Northern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1195 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 153.0GB/s 134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 14
Shading Units 1600 1120
TMUs 80 56
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 50.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.720 TFLOPS 2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Cypress Barts
GPU Variant Cypress XT(215-0735033) Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 228W 300W
Suggested PSU 550 W 700 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
Shader Model 5.0 5.0