ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE 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 91.87GB/s)
1312 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+173%
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 560 SE
0.848 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Feb 2012
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
957 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
91.87GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1600
Shading Units
288
80
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.832 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.33 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
847.9 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.66 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
GF114
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
GF114-200-KB-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
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
