AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5770

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

ATI Radeon HD 5770

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5770 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5770 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +178%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5770

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

Radeon HD 5770

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

108W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Juniper

-

GPU Variant

Juniper XT (215-0754013)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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