ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +499%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G92B

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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