AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +42%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2020

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1187 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

24

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Navi 14

-

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

125W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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