NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+44%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
1600
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
228W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Cypress
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
398 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
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
