ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+1108%
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Dec 2008
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1600
Shading Units
64
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 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 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
