NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER NVIDIA · 2026-01
GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 AMD · 2009-11
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2026
Nov 2009
Generation
GeForce 50
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2325 MHz
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Boost Clock
2512 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
18GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
50
—
Shading Units
6400
1600
TMUs
200
80
ROPs
80
32
Tensor Cores
200
—
RT Cores
50
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
48 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
502.4 GTexel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
32.15 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
32.15 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
502.4 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB205
Hemlock
GPU Variant
GB205-400-A1
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
40 nm
Transistors
31.1 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
263 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
294W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
N/A
CUDA
12.0
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Shader Model
6.8
5.0
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.