ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA PG506 232

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 24GB VRAM PG506 232 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

PG506 232 +344%

10.32 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

PG506 232

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2021

Evergreen

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA100

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.4

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.0

Shader Model

N/A

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