ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 205 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +5055%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 205 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 205 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1600

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

31W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GT218

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GT218-200-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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