ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
1264 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (160W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+121%
2320
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
1046
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Sep 2011
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
1600
Shading Units
336
80
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
160W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
GF114
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
