ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 150 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 64.00GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +393%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 150 OEM

0.47 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTS 150 OEM

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

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1600

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

141W

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G92

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

324 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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