ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 550 640SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP 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 96.00GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1071MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+69%
2320
Radeon RX 550 640SP
1371
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Oct 2017
Evergreen
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1019 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1071 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
10
1600
Shading Units
640
80
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.14 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.84 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1371 GFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1371 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.68 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Baffin
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Baffin LE
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
3 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
