Radeon HD 5970 and GeForce 9800 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce 9800 GT
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce 9800 GT
492
Radeon HD 5970
GeForce 9800 GT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Hemlock
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
725 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
112
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
112
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
105 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
58.00
33.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A