Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTS 450 OEM - video card comparison

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Broadway-XT

GF106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2010

October 2010

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

700 MHz

790 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,120.0 gflops

455.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

144

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

106 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.00

18.96

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A