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ATI Radeon HD 5970 technical specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 5970 sales 18 November 2009 at a recommended price of 699 USD. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GHz are supplied, and together with 2x 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2x 128.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 305 mm. An additional 1 power connector 6-pin and 1 power connector 8-pin are required, and power consumption is at 294 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 13.15 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN Xp.

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General info

Info on video card type (desktop or notebook), its architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

235

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Code name

Hemlock

Type

Desktop

Release date

18 November 2009

Launch price (MSRP)

699 USD

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Quantitative parameters such as shaders number, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly say of video card performance, but to be more precise you have to review it's benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 1600

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

725 MHz

of 1607

Transistor count

2,154 million

of 21100 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 12 (Tesla V100 PCIe)

Power consumption (TDP)

294 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

2x 58.0 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2x 2,320.0 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on video card compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus - if the video card is inserted into the slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Length

305 mm

Width

2-slot

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on the video card - type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 1 GB

of 32 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Memory bandwidth

2x 128.0 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Video connectors present on the video card. Mostly actual for desktop video cards since notebook ones' available video connectors vastly depend on the notebook model.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort