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AMD · 2009

Radeon HD 5970

The Radeon HD 5970 is a dual-GPU graphics card by AMD, released in 2009. It features two Hemlock chips on a single board.

The Radeon HD 5970 is a dual-GPU graphics card released by AMD on November 18, 2009. It is based on the TeraScale 2 architecture and uses two Hemlock GPU chips manufactured on a 40 nm process. The card has a total of 1600 shading units and operates at a base clock of 725 MHz. It comes with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 256-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The board has a thermal design power (TDP) of 294 W and connects via a PCIe 2.1 x16 interface. It supports DirectX 11.0 and OpenGL 4.5. The launch MSRP was 599 USD.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D Mark2,249
PassMark G2D Mark393

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Specifications

Architecture unverified TeraScale 2
GPU chip unverified Hemlock
Process node unverified 40 nm
Shading units1600
Base clock725 MHz
Memory size unverified 2 GB
Memory type unverified GDDR5
Memory bus unverified 256 bit
Memory bandwidth unverified 256 GB/s
Board power (TDP)294 W
Bus interface unverified PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX support unverified 11.0
OpenGL support unverified 4.5
Release date unverified 2009-11-18
Release year unverified 2009
Launch MSRP unverified 599 USD