Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5970
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5970 | | Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Hemlock (Hemlock XT) | vs | Juniper (Juniper XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 166 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 800 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5970 | | Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1195 MHz
4780 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5970 | | Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 294 watts | vs | 108 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Nov 2009 | vs | 4 Jul 2010 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better