ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +504%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2011

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

4

-

1600

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

55W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

RV730

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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