cybercore
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Understood. Ok, now my turn to apologize. Just didn't want you to think that what you had clearly spelled was unnoticed.
Jokes apart, a big advantage of ATI 5870 certainly is its 6-pin power. Unlike GTX 480:
ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 GPU Feature Summary
2.15 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
1600 Stream Processing Units
80 Texture Units - this deffinitely increases speed
128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
32 Color ROP Units
GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11 support
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Programmable hardware tessellation unit
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 3.2 support1
Image quality enhancement technology
Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
Adaptive anti-aliasing
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
128-bit floating point HDR rendering
5870's price is another big advantage.
Kemical said:This is the first review I've found and so have posted the conclusion to save you guys the time.. Admittedly Guru3D is a Nvidia site so bias will be a little towards Nvidia but to be fair to the site they are as impartial as they can be.
Jokes apart, a big advantage of ATI 5870 certainly is its 6-pin power. Unlike GTX 480:
ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 GPU Feature Summary
2.15 billion 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
1600 Stream Processing Units
80 Texture Units - this deffinitely increases speed
128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
32 Color ROP Units
GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11 support
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Programmable hardware tessellation unit
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 3.2 support1
Image quality enhancement technology
Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
Adaptive anti-aliasing
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
128-bit floating point HDR rendering
5870's price is another big advantage.