AMD Radeon R7 250XE vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE 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 R7 250XE 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (80W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250XE

1.101 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +110%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

20

640

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

34.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1101 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

68.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Hemlock

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

294W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

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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