Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cypress
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
July 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
783 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
451.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
144
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
18.79
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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
N/A