ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 5950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (215W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +91%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

448

72

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GT215

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

215W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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