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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2010 Dec 2013
Generation Evergreen Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1195 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 153.0GB/s 96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 12
Shading Units 1600 768
TMUs 80 48
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 48.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.720 TFLOPS 1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 544.0 GFLOPS 96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Cypress Bonaire
GPU Variant Cypress XT(215-0735033) Bonaire PRO
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 2.08 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 160 mm²
Board Design
TDP 228W 95W
Suggested PSU 550 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2
Shader Model 5.0 6.3