ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY +208%

7.168 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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Radeon R9 FURY

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jul 2015

Evergreen

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

56

-

1600

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.168 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.168 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

448.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Fiji

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

596 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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