ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 7950 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock3300MHz

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 7950 XTX +3395%

81.1 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Unknown

Evergreen

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2200 MHz

-

Boost Clock

3300 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

633.6 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1267 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

162.2 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

81.10 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 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+

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

2

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

3

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

4

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT

5

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

6

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

7

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

8

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

9

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FirePro V8800

10

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA CMP 50HX

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage