ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5470

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI Radeon HD 5470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5470 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +2130%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5470

0.104 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon HD 5470

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Feb 2012

Evergreen

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

2

-

1600

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Cedar

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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