Quadro FX 3800 and Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition - video card comparison

Quadro FX 3800

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GT200B

Cypress

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2009

June 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Core clock speed

600 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

462.3 gflops

2,720.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

1600

Power consumption (TDP)

108 Watt

228 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

68.00

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

4780 MHz

Memory bandwidth

51.2 GB/s

153.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A