AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1855MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +93%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Feb 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1744 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

22

1536

Shading Units

1408

96

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 14

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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