ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +87%

4.339 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2021

Evergreen

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA107

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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