Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs Radeon HD 7970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5500 OEM Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1845MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (110W vs 250W)
Radeon HD 7970 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
+37%
5196
Radeon HD 7970
3789
Graphics Card
Oct 2019
Release Date
Jan 2012
Navi
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1845 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
22
Compute Units
32
1408
Shading Units
2048
88
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
59.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
162.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
10.39 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.196 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
324.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
110W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 14
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 14 XT
(215-0932220)
(215-0932220)
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
(215-0821060)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.4 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
158 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
6.5
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
