ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2009
Apr 2021
Generation
Evergreen
Ampere-MW
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1375 MHz
Base Clock
—
682 MHz
Boost Clock
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1207 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1600
2560
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
20
Tensor Cores
—
80
RT Cores
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
57.94 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
6.180 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
6.180 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hemlock
GA107
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
8.7 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
294W
95W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.