ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 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 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+778%
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GSO
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Apr 2008
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1600
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
294W
TDP
84W
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
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
G92
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
324 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
