ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 7600 GT AGP 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 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 294W)

Score

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 7600 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.480 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.720 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G73

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G73-VZ-N-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.177 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

40W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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