AMD Radeon R9 370X vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370X

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X +13%

2.637 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Nov 2009

Pirate Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

20

-

1280

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

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2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Hemlock

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

212 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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