ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1815MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +380%

11.15 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jul 2019

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

1600

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

TU104

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

TU104-450-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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