NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +178%

6.463 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1600

120

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hemlock

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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