ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +165%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM

0.874 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2010

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.100 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

873.6 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GF104

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GF104-325-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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