ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +116%

5.027 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2019

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

1600

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 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 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

TU116

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

284 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

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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