Product Compare

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2009 Apr 2021
Generation Evergreen Quadro Ampere
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1750 MHz
Base Clock 735 MHz
Boost Clock 1560 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 16GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1600 6144
TMUs 80 192
ROPs 32 96
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 4 MB
SM Count 48
Tensor Cores 192
RT Cores 48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 23.20 GPixel/s 149.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 58.00 GTexel/s 299.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.320 TFLOPS 19.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 464.0 GFLOPS 299.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 19.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hemlock GA104
GPU Variant Hemlock XT(215-0735075) GA104-875-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 40 nm 8 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 17.4 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 392 mm²
Board Design
TDP 294W 140W
Suggested PSU 600 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.3
Shader Model 5.0 6.7
CUDA 8.6