ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2150MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +849%

22.02 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Aug 2021

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

80

-

1600

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 21

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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