AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 560 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1275MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +64%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

32

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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