ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
1216 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (170W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+83%
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
1.263 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Jan 2011
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1600
Shading Units
384
80
TMUs
64
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
13.17 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.67 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1263 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
105.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
170W
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
GF114-400-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
