ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI 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 210 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +6528%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 210 PCI

0.035 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 210 PCI

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

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

1.900 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.20 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

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GT216

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

100 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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