ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FireGL V5600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI FireGL V5600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

1480 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +1108%

2.32 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Aug 2007

Evergreen

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

3

-

1600

Shading Units

120

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

89W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

RV630

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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