
Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Cypress
TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
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1335 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1140 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
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Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
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Texture fill rate
68.00
-
Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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