Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
Radeon HD 5970
2350
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Hemlock
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
725 MHz
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
320
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
11.89
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A