NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Nov 2009
Generation
GeForce 900
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1600
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Hemlock
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
294W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.0