AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +89%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Jan 2013

Navi

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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