Radeon HD 5970 vs GeForce GTX 285
Summary
Radeon HD 5970
251%
GeForce GTX 285
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 151% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 285 |
| 90 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5970
The Radeon HD 5970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5970 | | GeForce GTX 285 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Hemlock (Hemlock XT) | vs | GT200B (G200-350-B3) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 470 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 240 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 648 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5970 | | GeForce GTX 285 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5970 | | GeForce GTX 285 | |
|---|
| TDP | 294 watts | vs | 204 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Nov 2009 | vs | 23 Dec 2008 |
Radeon HD 5970
46.40 GP/s
GeForce GTX 285
20.70 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
116.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 285
51.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
256.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 285
159.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
4640.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 285
708.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
7410
GeForce GTX 285
2950
Points (higher is better)