ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +444%

12.63 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2021

Evergreen

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1600

Shading Units

4480

80

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA100

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.4

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.0

Shader Model

N/A

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