Technical data / specifications

The 5870 SOC leaves the Gigabyte factories with a GPU clock of 950 MHz and the 1'024 MB memory are clocked with 1'250 MHz. The dissipation power Gigabyte claims to be 191 Watts which is, compared to NVIDIAs GTX400 series, almost green. In idle the SOC card is capable of only activating two power phases and the power consumption doesn't exceed 27 Watts, which really is something that needs to be beaten by another high-end overclocking graphics card. With five of NECs Proadlizer capacitors - also known as film-capacitors - Gigabyte goes its own ways. Together they deliver 5'000 uF capacity which is one of the main reasons why this card can be overclocked so well. Also the dual fan cooper cooler which has four heatpipes is very powerful which is why the card more silent and cooler than a card in reference design.

	GTX 480	Gigabyte 5870 SOC	ASUS EAH5870
Chip	GF100	RV870	RV870
Process	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	3.2 billion	2.15 billion	2.15 billion
GPU clock	700 MHz	950 MHz	850 MHz
Shader clock	1'401 MHz	950 MHz	850 MHz
Memory	1'536 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	1'848 MHz	1'250 MHz	1'200 MHz
Memory interface	384 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	177'408 MB/s	160'000 MB/s	153'600 MB/s
TMUs	60	80	80
TAUs	60	80	80
Shader Cores	480 (1D)	288 (5D)	288 (5D)
ROPs	48 ROP	32 ROP	32 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	250 Watt	191 Watt	188 Watt

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 9 - PT Boats
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 10 - X3 Terran Conflict
Page 3 -Preview	Page 11 - Streetfighter 4
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 12 - World in Conflict
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 13 - Resident Evil 5
Page 6 - 3DMark 06	Page 14 - Call of Juarez
Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage	Page 15 - Far Cry 2
Page 8 - Furmark	Page 16 - Conclusion

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