ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 140 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 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+1015%
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 140 OEM
0.208 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Mar 2009
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 100
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
1024MB
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
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
105W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
G94B
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
196 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
