ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 +242%

7.949 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jul 2019

Evergreen

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1465 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

36

1600

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 10

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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