ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +802%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1600

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

69W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GT215

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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