AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 5700

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 5700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1350MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5700 +44%

6.221 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 5700

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2020

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1243 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

36

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

86.40 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

194.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.44 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.221 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

388.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

130W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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