ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM 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 14.40GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +287%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

6

-

1600

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Oland

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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