Radeon HD 5970 and GeForce 8800 Ultra - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce 8800 Ultra
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce 8800 Ultra
661
Radeon HD 5970
GeForce 8800 Ultra
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Hemlock
G80
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
725 MHz
612 MHz
CUDA cores
-
612
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
128
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
171 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
39.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
1080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
103.7 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A