ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon HD 8730 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Lower TDP (47W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+277%
2320
Radeon HD 8730 OEM
614
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Sep 2013
Evergreen
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
6
1600
Shading Units
384
80
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
8
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.400 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
614.4 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
38.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
47W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Cape Verde
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Cape Verde LE
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
