ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2.32 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 FURY X2
+270%
8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Unknown
Evergreen
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
64
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
4096
80
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
67.20 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
268.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.602 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
294W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Capsaicin
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Capsaicin XT C9
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
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-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
