Radeon HD 5970 and GeForce GTX 460 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce GTX 460
2330
Radeon HD 5970
GeForce GTX 460
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Hemlock
GF104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
July 2010
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
6-pin & 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
725 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
907.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
336
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
160 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
37.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
86.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A