Radeon HD 5470 and GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5470
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cedar
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2012
September 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
104.0 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
32
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.200
10.80
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2016 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 GB/s
32.26 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A