GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N16E-GXX SLI
Cypress
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
June 2010
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1228 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1126 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
10400 Million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
330 Watt
228 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
4780 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
153.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12_1
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A