AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP 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 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +69%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Nov 2009

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

20

640

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Hemlock

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

294W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

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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