AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7970

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

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

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +42%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Dec 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

-

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

32

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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