AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM 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 RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (110W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

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

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +37%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Dec 2011

Navi

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

32

-

1408

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

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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