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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2010 Sep 2014
Generation Evergreen GeForce 600
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1195 MHz 1502 MHz
Base Clock 980 MHz
Boost Clock 1032 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 192bit
Bandwidth 153.0GB/s 144.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1600 960
TMUs 80 80
ROPs 32 24
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 512 KB 384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 20.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 82.56 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.720 TFLOPS 1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 544.0 GFLOPS 82.56 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Cypress GK104
GPU Variant Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture TeraScale 2 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 228W 140W
Suggested PSU 550 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.1
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 3.0