AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1499MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT +183%

7.675 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1243 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1499 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

40

-

1536

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

95.94 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.35 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.675 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

479.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 10

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTA

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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