ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 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 115.2GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (160W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +146%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2011

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1600

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.814 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.26 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

941.5 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

160W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GF104

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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