ATI Radeon HD 5970: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 5970 sales 18 November 2009 at a recommended price of $699. This is 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. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 294 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 13.79 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon HD 5970's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

241

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Code name

Hemlock

Type

Desktop

Release date

18 November 2009

Launch price (MSRP)

$699

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 5970's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 5970's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 1600

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

725 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

2,154 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

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 Radeon HD 5970's 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).

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Length

305 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 5970: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that 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

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

2x 128.0 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 5970.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 5970, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

11.0

OpenGL

4.3

of 4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 5970. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

13.79

Passmark

2592

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

3690

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 5970 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

114 %

AMD Radeon HD 7790

108.77 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

106.38 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

100 %

ATI Radeon HD 5970

98.62 %

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

96.81 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465

96.23 %

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 5970 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 470, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our rating.