ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +223%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

8

-

1600

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

55W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 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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