ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2105MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +596%

16.17 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2020

Evergreen

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

60

-

1600

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 21

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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