ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock2300MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (100W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7500 XT +306%

9.421 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 7500 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Unknown

Evergreen

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1452 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2300 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

16

1600

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.60 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

147.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.84 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.421 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

294.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 33

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Navi 33

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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