ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon Pro SSG

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon Pro SSG

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro SSG to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro SSG 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1500MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (260W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro SSG +429%

12.29 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon Pro SSG

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Aug 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1500 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

64

-

1600

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.00 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

768.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

260W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Vega 10

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT GL (215-0894124)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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