ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +2536%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jul 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1600

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

40W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G96

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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