AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1499MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT +102%

7.675 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2020

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1243 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1499 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/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

95.94 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.35 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.675 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

479.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTA

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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