AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +37%

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970

2279

Radeon RX 5500 XT +115%

4901

Radeon HD 7970

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Dec 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

22

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 14

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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