AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 7700 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2544MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (245W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 XT +1415%

35.17 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Nov 2009

Navi III

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1435 MHz

Base Clock

-

2544 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

54

Compute Units

20

3456

Shading Units

1600

216

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

54

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

244.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

549.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

70.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

1099 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Hemlock

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

245W

TDP

294W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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