ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2040MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (205W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X +350%

10.44 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon Pro W5700X

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2019

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1243 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2040 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

40

-

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

130.6 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

326.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.89 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.44 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

652.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

205W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 10

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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