ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 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 12.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +658%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2014

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GK208B

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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