Radeon RX 7900 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XT and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 7900 XT 's Advantages
Released 13 years late
Boost Clock2394MHz
More VRAM (20GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
3776 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (294W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+2118%
51480
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2320
Graphics Card
Nov 2022
Release Date
Nov 2009
Navi III
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1387 MHz
Base Clock
-
2394 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
20GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
320bit
Memory Bus
256bit
800.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
84
Compute Units
20
5376
Shading Units
1600
336
TMUs
80
192
ROPs
32
84
RT Cores
-
256 KB per Array
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
6 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
80 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
459.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
804.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
103.0 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
51.48 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
1.609 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
294W
700 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1a
2x DisplayPort 2.1
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 31
GPU Name
Hemlock
Navi 31 XT
(215-145000156)
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
RDNA 3.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
57.7 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
5.0
