ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +114%

4.981 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2014

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

1216 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GM204

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

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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