ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 98.50GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (116W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +235%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2011

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GF116

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

116W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

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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