AMD Radeon 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon 540

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +155%

2.32 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2009

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

20

-

384

Shading Units

1600

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

294W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Hemlock

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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