ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +93%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2008

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1600

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

RV770

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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