GeForce 8800 Ultra and Radeon HD 5870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Radeon HD 5870
GeForce 8800 Ultra
661
Radeon HD 5870
2282
GeForce 8800 Ultra
Radeon HD 5870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G80
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2007
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
612 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
612
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
171 Watt
188 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.2 billion/sec
68.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1080 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
103.7 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A