NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +282%

8.873 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2560

Shading Units

1600

160

TMUs

80

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

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hemlock

GP104-410-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

Board Design

180W

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 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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