ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2009
Nov 2013
Generation
Evergreen
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
40
Shading Units
1600
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hemlock
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
294W
275W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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3,694
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.