ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (294W vs 300W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690 +34%

3.13 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

May 2012

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GK104

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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