ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6600 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2580MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6600 +298%

9.247 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon Pro W6600

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2021

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2331 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2580 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

28

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.1 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

289.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.49 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.247 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

577.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 23

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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