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ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (294W vs 375W)
AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2.32 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8990 OEM +76%
4.096 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Nov 2009
Release Date
Apr 2013
Evergreen
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
950 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s

Render Config

20
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W
TDP
375W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock
GPU Name
Malta
Hemlock XT (215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Malta XT (215-0849026)
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
365 mm²

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
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
5.1

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