ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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ATI Radeon HD 5950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +324%

8.873 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

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GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2017

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

352.3GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1440

Shading Units

2560

72

TMUs

160

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

110.9 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

180W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x 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 PRO

GPU Variant

GP104-410-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

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