NVIDIA GRID K120Q vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K120Q and ATI Radeon HD 5970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GRID K120Q

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K120Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 725 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 300 Watt

Launch date	2 July 2014 vs 18 November 2009
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5970

19x more texture fill rate: 2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
16.7x more pipelines: 2x 1600 vs 192
14.2x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,320.0 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
7.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2263 vs 293
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 416 vs 278

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1600 vs 192
Floating-point performance	2x 2,320.0 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2263 vs 293
PassMark - G2D Mark	416 vs 278

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K120Q
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5970

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

293

2263

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

278

416

Name	NVIDIA GRID K120Q	ATI Radeon HD 5970
PassMark - G3D Mark	293	2263
PassMark - G2D Mark	278	416
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3977
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3454
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3213
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3213

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID K120Q	ATI Radeon HD 5970
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK107	Hemlock
Launch date	2 July 2014	18 November 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$125	$699
Place in performance rating	603	605
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops	2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	192	2x 1600
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	2,154 million
Boost clock speed		725 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		305 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.51 GB / s	2x 128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1782 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity