ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 640MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 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 late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 640GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +762%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

0.269 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

640MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1600

Shading Units

112

80

TMUs

28

32

ROPs

20

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

80 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G80

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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