ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA L20

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA L20

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 48GB VRAM L20 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L20 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

10176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

L20 +2458%

59.35 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

L20

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2023

Evergreen

Generation

Tesla Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

92

1600

Shading Units

11776

80

TMUs

368

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

92

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

927.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

59.35 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

59.35 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

927.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

4x 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

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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