ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 vs ATI HD 5970

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking583not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.34no data
Power efficiency1.39no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameHemlockM92
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 November 2009 (14 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores160080
Core clock speed725 MHz720 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)294 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate58.005.760
Floating-point processing power2.32 TFLOPS0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs808

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length305 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2009 7 January 2010
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 294 Watt 15 Watt

ATI HD 5970 has a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

ATI Mobility HD 5145, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, and 1860% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5970 and Mobility Radeon HD 5145. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5970 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 5145 is a notebook one.


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