ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
320 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2320
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
+88%
4375
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Oct 2018
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
1600
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
48
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
GP104
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
GP104-150-KA-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
