ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

1552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +1387%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

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

6

1600

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

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

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G94B

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

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

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