NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +209%

6.463 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

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ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Unknown

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

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

1920

Shading Units

1440

120

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

52.20 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hemlock

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

302W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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