Product Compare

ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Unknown Oct 2014
Generation Evergreen GeForce 900M
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1253 MHz
Base Clock 924 MHz
Boost Clock 1038 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 192bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 120.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 18
Shading Units 1440 1280
TMUs 72 80
ROPs 32 48
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 23.20 GPixel/s 49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 52.20 GTexel/s 83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.088 TFLOPS 2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 83.04 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hemlock GM204
GPU Variant Hemlock PRO(215-0735443) N16E-GT-A2
Architecture TeraScale 2 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 5.2 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 398 mm²
Board Design
TDP 302W Unknown
Suggested PSU 700 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.3
Shader Model 5.0 6.7 (6.4)
CUDA 5.2