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GPU Comparison
AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7970
AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1266MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7970
3.789 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 580 OEM
+53%
5.834 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970
VS
Radeon RX 580 OEM
Graphics Card
Dec 2011
Release Date
Jun 2016
Southern Islands
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
264.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
-
32
Compute Units
36
2048
Shading Units
2304
128
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
-
-
RT Cores
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Tahiti XT (215-0821060)
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)
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
Board Design
250W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
-
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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