AMD Radeon RX 470D vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470D

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D +86%

4.322 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Oct 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

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

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

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

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 Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hemlock

Polaris 10 PROD

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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