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ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 D 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 425W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
12992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2.32 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4090 D +3069%
73.54 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Nov 2009
Release Date
Dec 2023
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
2280 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1008GB/s

Render Config

20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
114
1600
Shading Units
14592
80
TMUs
456
32
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
456
-
RT Cores
114
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
72 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
443.5 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1149 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
73.54 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
73.54 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1149 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W
TDP
425W
600 W
Suggested PSU
800 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock
GPU Name
AD102
Hemlock XT (215-0735075)
GPU Variant
AD102-250-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
609 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
8.9
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
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