NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +114%

4.981 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

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4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Hemlock

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

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

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