ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +178%

6.463 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2018

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

1683 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GP104

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

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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