NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 GeForce 945A

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 48% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 725 MHz
Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 725 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
9.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 416

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 18 November 2009
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 416

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5970

9.1x more texture fill rate: 2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 28.22 GTexel / s
8.3x more pipelines: 2x 1600 vs 384
5.1x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,320.0 gflops vs 903.2 gflops
2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2263 vs 1852

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 28.22 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1600 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2x 2,320.0 gflops vs 903.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2263 vs 1852

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5970

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

416

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

2263

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	ATI Radeon HD 5970
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	107.63
PassMark - G2D Mark	716	416
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	2263
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 GeForce 945A	ATI Radeon HD 5970
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM108	Hemlock
Launch date	13 March 2015	18 November 2009
Place in performance rating	602	605
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz	725 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops	2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	2x 1600
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count		2,154 million
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 x8	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	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	2x 128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity