ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 +88%

4.372 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 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

1708 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

68.32 GFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.372 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.6 GFLOPS

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

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 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

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