ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
160 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (151W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+11%
2320
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
2088
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Aug 2012
Evergreen
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
18
1600
Shading Units
1440
80
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
151W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Cypress
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO
(215-0735043)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
5.0
