Technical data / specifications

According to the raw technical data, regarding our comparison tables below, the MSI R5870 Lightning comes almost standard. Only the GPU and memory clocks have been increased by 50 MHz. With the Lightning MSI focussed on the electrical parts which have been put onto the ten layer PCB. As a result MSI claims that the card has unique overclocking capabilities. All the additional parts needed more space which is the reason that this card is about two centimeters higher than the reference design.

	GTX 480	MSI HD 5870 Lighning	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	900 MHz	850 MHz
Shader clock	1'401 MHz	900 MHz	850 MHz
Memory	1'536 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	1'848 MHz	1'200 MHz	1'200 MHz
Memory interface	384 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	177'408 MB/s	153'600 MB/s	153'600 MB/s
TMUs	60	80	80
TAUs	60	80	80
Shader Cores	480 (1D)	320 (5D)	320 (5D)
ROPs	48 ROP	32 ROP	32 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	250 Watt	193 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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