AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 268.8GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1206MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (180W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 X2 +14%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon RX 570 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

268.8GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

180W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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