ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +132%

5.398 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Aug 2020

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1187 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

24

1600

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 14

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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