ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +166%

6.175 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2018

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

36

-

1600

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

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

42.88 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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 XTX (215-0910038)

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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