Radeon HD 5970 and GeForce RTX 4070 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce RTX 4070
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce RTX 4070
27789
Radeon HD 5970
GeForce RTX 4070
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Hemlock
AD104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
April 2023
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2475 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1920 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
35,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
455.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
504.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.9
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3