AMD FireStream 9270 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD FireStream 9270

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (160W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +93%

2.32 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Nov 2009

FireStream

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

20

-

800

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Hemlock

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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