ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA RTX A1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1462MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +190%

6.737 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2024

Evergreen

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

727 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1600

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA107

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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