AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 OEM 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 5600 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1560MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 OEM +48%

6.39 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Jun 2012

Navi

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

199.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

12.78 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.390 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

399.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 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 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 10 XE

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

251 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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