AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 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 RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (294W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition +445%

12.66 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Nov 2009

Vega

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

-

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

20

4096

Shading Units

1600

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

25.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hemlock

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

294W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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