NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +87%

4.339 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2009

Tesla

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

294W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Hemlock

-

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.154 billion

Unknown

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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