ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (294W vs 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock2498MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +2546%

61.39 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2022

Evergreen

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1929 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2498 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

96

-

1600

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

384

32

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

96

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

479.6 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

959.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

122.8 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

61.39 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.918 TFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

355W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 XTX (215-145000146)

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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