ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (170W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670 +26%

2.634 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2012

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

1344

72

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

170W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GK104

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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