AMD Radeon RX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +112%

4.94 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hemlock

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

294W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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