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ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (294W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2.32 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2 +147%
5.733 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Nov 2009
Release Date
Apr 2014
Evergreen
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s

Render Config

20
Compute Units
44
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
2816
80
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W
TDP
500W
600 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock
GPU Name
Vesuvius
Hemlock XT (215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
438 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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