ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X2 +270%

8.602 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Unknown

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

64

-

1600

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

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

67.20 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 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

Capsaicin

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT C9

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

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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