ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

1120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +72%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2010

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

1600

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GF100

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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