AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5730

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +593%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5730

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon HD 5730

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Feb 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

5

-

2048

Shading Units

400

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

64W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Redwood

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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