Technical data / specifications

At this point we do not want to compare the two different architectures what we're doing is a simple comparison of the basic data. Generally you see the same picture as with previous generations of ATI and NVIDIA cards. ATI drives higher clock rates on GPU and memory but has threrefore a smaller memory interface and a less comples GPU if you consider only the transistor count.

	ASUS 5870	ASUS 470
Chip	RV870	GF100
Process	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	2.15 Mrd.	ca. 3 Mrd.
GPU clock	725 MHz	607 MHz
Shader clock	850 MHz	1'401 MHz
Shader units	320	448
Memory	1'024 MB GDDR5	1'280 MB GDDR3
Memory clock	2'400 MHz	1'676 MHz
Memory interface	256 Bit	320 Bit
Memory bandwidth	153'600 MB/s	134'080 MB/s
ROPs	32 ROP	40 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	188 Watt	215 Watt

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 5 - Synthetic Benchmarks
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 6 - Gaming Benchmarks
Page 3 - Impressions	Page 7 - Conclusion
Page 4 - Test conditions

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