ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 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 570 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (152.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (219W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +65%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570

1.405 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 570

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2010

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

1600

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

40

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.96 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.92 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1405 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

175.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

219W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GF110

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GF110-275-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

520 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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