ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2245MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (260W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +1881%

45.98 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jul 2023

Evergreen

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1287 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2245 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

80

-

1600

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

160

-

RT Cores

80

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

359.2 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

718.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

91.96 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.98 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1437 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

260W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Navi 31

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XL (215-145000206)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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