Radeon HD 5970 and GeForce GTX 950A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce GTX 950A
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce GTX 950A
2637
Radeon HD 5970
GeForce GTX 950A
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Hemlock
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
March 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
993 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
1,271 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
640
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
44.96
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
32.03 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
5.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126