ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 294W)

Score

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2007

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

67.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

R580+

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.384 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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