ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (294W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

7360 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1220%

30.64 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2022

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

8960

80

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA102

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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