Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and Quadro RTX 8000 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
Quadro RTX 8000
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Cypress
TU102
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
June 2010
August 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1395 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
18,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
228 Watt
260 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
509.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4780 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.0 GB/s
672.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131