NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +221%

7.465 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 20

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 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

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2304

Shading Units

1600

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Hemlock

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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