ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +1290%

32.26 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2025

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

532.6GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

50

1600

Shading Units

6400

80

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

220W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GB205

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GB205

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

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