ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2320
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+178%
6463
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Dec 2018
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
1600
Shading Units
1920
80
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
64
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
GP104
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.0
Shader Model
6.4