NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 's Advantages

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +872%

20.31 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

1440

184

TMUs

72

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

302W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hemlock

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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