AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5700 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1880MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (205W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700 +128%

8.663 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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Radeon Pro W5700

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Nov 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1400 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1880 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

36

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

120.3 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

270.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.33 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.663 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

541.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

205W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

5x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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