GeForce RTX 4090 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 Advantages
Released 12 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
14784 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 5970 Advantages
Lower TDP (294W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+3459%
82580
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2320
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 40
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
128
SM Count
-
16384
Shading Units
1600
512
TMUs
80
176
ROPs
32
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
72 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
294W
850 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
Hemlock
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
(215-0735075)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
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
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.0