ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 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 28.80GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +2316%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

0.096 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

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

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/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

4.800 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

G96B

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G96-309-B1

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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