Radeon HD 5970 and GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5970

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Hemlock

GN21-X11

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2009

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2040 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 2,320.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1600

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

294 Watt

150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

58.00

515.3

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

20000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

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