ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5490
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (19W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+2130%
2.32 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5490
0.104 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Oct 2012
Evergreen
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
80
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 XTX
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
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-
-
5.0
Shader Model
5.0
