ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 112.0GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 +12%

2.611 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

16

1600

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

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

20.40 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

Board Design

294W

TDP

75W

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 Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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