Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 5970

Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770
Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5770
    100%
  • Radeon HD 5970
    266%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770

186 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5970 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970

Around 166% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5770Radeon HD 5970
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsHemlock (Hemlock XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders800vs1600
Compute Units10vs20
Core clock850 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5770Radeon HD 5970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770Radeon HD 5970
TDP108 wattsvs294 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2009vs18 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5770
    2780
  • Radeon HD 5970
    7410

Points (higher is better)