ATI Radeon HD 3570 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3570 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3570

  • 7.6x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 228 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 228 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 796 MHz
  • 21.4x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 3.18 GTexel / s
  • 40x more pipelines: 1600 vs 40
  • 42.7x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 63.68 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4.8x more memory clock speed: 4780 MHz vs 990 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 796 MHz
Texture fill rate 68.0 GTexel / s vs 3.18 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1600 vs 40
Floating-point performance 2,720.0 gflops vs 63.68 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4780 MHz vs 990 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 3570 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale TeraScale 2
Code name RV620 Cypress
Launch date 5 July 2010 30 June 2010
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $479

Technical info

Core clock speed 796 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 63.68 gflops 2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 40 1600
Texture fill rate 3.18 GTexel / s 68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 228 Watt
Transistor count 181 million 2,154 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 279 mm

API support

DirectX 10.1 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 3.3 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 7.92 GB / s 153.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 990 MHz 4780 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR5

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