ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2 +120%

5.12 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon R9 390 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2015

Evergreen

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

40

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Grenada

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

580W

600 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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