Radeon HD 5870 and Quadro FX 5800 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Quadro FX 5800

Radeon HD 5870

2282

Quadro FX 5800

1260

Radeon HD 5870

Quadro FX 5800

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Cypress

GT200B

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

September 2009

November 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

850 MHz

610 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,720.0 gflops

622.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

1,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1600

240

Power consumption (TDP)

188 Watt

189 Watt

Texture fill rate

68.00

48.80

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

102.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

3.3

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A