ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce 205 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 205 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
GeForce 205 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+5055%
2320
GeForce 205 OEM
45
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Nov 2009
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1600
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
294W
TDP
31W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
GT218
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
GT218-200-B1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
4.1