Radeon Pro W5700X vs Radeon HD 6970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages
Boost Clock2040MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (205W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro W5700X
+286%
10440
Radeon HD 6970 X2
2703
Graphics Card
Dec 2019
Release Date
Unknown
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1243 MHz
Base Clock
-
2040 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
24
2560
Shading Units
1536
160
TMUs
96
64
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
130.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
326.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
20.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.44 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
652.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
205W
TDP
375W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1
4x Thunderbolt
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Antilles
-
GPU Variant
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
40 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.5
Shader Model
5.0
