ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM 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 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +1833%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1600

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

Unknown

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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G94

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

240 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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