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 Mark | 2,249 |
|---|---|
| PassMark G2D Mark | 393 |
Specifications
| Architecture unverified | TeraScale 2 |
|---|---|
| GPU chip unverified | Hemlock |
| Process node unverified | 40 nm |
| Shading units | 1600 |
| Base clock | 725 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 |