ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP 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 96.00GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1071MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+111%
2.32 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 550 512SP
1.097 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Oct 2017
Evergreen
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1019 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1071 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
512
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.14 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.27 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1097 GFLOPS
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1097 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
68.54 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Baffin
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Baffin LE
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
3 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
123 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
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
