ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2009
Feb 2010
Generation
Evergreen
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
14
Shading Units
1600
1120
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
12.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
44.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
1.792 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
358.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hemlock
Cypress
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Cypress LE(215-0735047)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
294W
175W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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