ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 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 19.20GB/s)
1200 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (39W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+346%
2.32 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6530
0.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
May 2011
Evergreen
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
19.20GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
5
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
400
80
TMUs
20
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.200 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
520.0 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
294W
TDP
39W
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
-
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Redwood
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Redwood PRO
(215-0757004)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
104 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
