Jetson Xavier NX GPU vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCypressGV10B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 June 2010 (14 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 $399

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1600384
Core clock speed850 MHz854 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1377 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million9,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate68.0033.05
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS1.058 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs8024
Tensor Coresno data48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1195 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2010 14 May 2020
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 15 Watt

Jetson Xavier NX GPU has an age advantage of 9 years, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1420% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and Jetson Xavier NX GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition is a desktop card while Jetson Xavier NX GPU is a notebook one.


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