ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 560D

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 560D

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

704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560D 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +10%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560D

2.106 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 560D

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jul 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

14

-

1600

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

65W

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

Polaris 21

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

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

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