NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +190%

6.06 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

2816

Shading Units

1440

176

TMUs

72

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Hemlock

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

302W

600 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 6-pin + 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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