NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

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

1216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +161%

6.06 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Nov 2009

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

-

Compute Units

20

-

2816

Shading Units

1600

176

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

-

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

58.00 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

294W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Hemlock

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

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

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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