ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages
Lower TDP (151W vs 294W)
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
160 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5850
2.088 TFLOPS
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+11%
2.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2009
Release Date
Nov 2009
Evergreen
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
18
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
1440
Shading Units
1600
72
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.088 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
151W
TDP
294W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Hemlock
Cypress PRO
(215-0735043)
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
5.0
