ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +4%

2.413 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2015

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GM206

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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