ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT 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 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +1015%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Feb 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

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1600

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

95W

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

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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