AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +157%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jul 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

40

-

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

225W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Navi 10

-

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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