ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 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 104.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +17%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

14

-

1600

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

85W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Bonaire

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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