Radeon HD 5970 and NV42 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5970

NV42

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Hemlock

NV42

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2009

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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Core clock speed

725 MHz

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Floating-point performance

2x 2,320.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

198 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1600

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Power consumption (TDP)

294 Watt

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Texture fill rate

58.00

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

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DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

2.0 (full) Shader Model5.03.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP1