Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5970
    132%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970

Around 32% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750 Ti

234 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5970 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5970

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5970

The Radeon HD 5970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5970GeForce GTX 750 Ti
GPU NameHemlock (Hemlock XT)vsGM107 (GM107-400-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders1600vs640
Compute Units20vs5
Core clock725 MHzvs1020 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5970GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5970GeForce GTX 750 Ti
TDP294 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date18 Nov 2009vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    16.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    40.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    86.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    1305.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5970
    7410
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    5610

Points (higher is better)