AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1175MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (45W vs 250W)