They both offer three digital display outputs split between DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort connectors. Yes, both of these new cards leverage DirectX 11 support. Right off the bat, we knew that this was going to be a very tough comparison-not only between ATI and Nvidia, but also between ATI and its own lineup of products. Nevertheless, ATI arms it with GDDR5 memory able to move up to 76.8 GB/s.

But its memory interface, being a halved version of Cypress,’ is only 128-bits wide. It also wields 800 shader processors, 40 texture units, and a depth/stencil rate of 64 pixels per clock. In contrast, ATI’s 40nm Juniper GPU is made up of 1.04 billion transistors.