ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (302W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +81%

3.789 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2012

Evergreen

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

32

1440

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

New Zealand

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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