AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +209%

7.188 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Nov 2009

Navi

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

20

-

2304

Shading Units

1600

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Hemlock

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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