ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1284MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +126%

5.259 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2018

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

32

-

1600

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 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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