AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

ATI Radeon HD 5830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 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 6 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +111%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5830

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Feb 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

14

-

2048

Shading Units

1120

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.80 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

175W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress LE (215-0735047)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 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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