AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +31%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Nov 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

20

1024

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Hemlock

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

294W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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