ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon R9 380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380 +49%

3.476 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon R9 380

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2015

Evergreen

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

28

-

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.476 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.476 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

217.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

190W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Antigua

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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