ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB +79%

4.156 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2013

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GK110B

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GK110-301-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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