Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce 256 DDR - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce 256 DDR
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
Cypress
NV10 A3
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
December 1999
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
850 MHz
120 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
17 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
-
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
68.00
0.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
300 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
4.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
7.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A