ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +69%

3.935 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Aug 2016

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

1600

Shading Units

1152

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GP106

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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