GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon HD 5970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 5970
GeForce GTX 295
1242
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce GTX 295
Radeon HD 5970
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT200B
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2009
November 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
CUDA cores per GPU
240
-
Floating-point performance
2x 596.2 gflops
2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
240
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
289 Watt
294 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
92.2 billion/sec
58.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1792 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
896 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
223.8 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
896 MB
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIHDMI
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)
128bit
-