ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 580G
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1330MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (185W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2320
Radeon RX 580G
+164%
6129
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Oct 2018
Evergreen
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1257 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1330 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
36
1600
Shading Units
2304
80
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.56 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
191.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.129 TFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.129 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
383.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
185W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
232 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
