Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon HD 5870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon HD 5870
Radeon HD 5970
2350
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon HD 5870
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
725 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
188 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A