AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1980MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary +167%

10.14 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

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Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Aug 2012

Navi

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1680 MHz

Base Clock

-

1980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

32

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

126.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

316.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

20.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.14 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

New Zealand

Navi 10 XTX

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

225W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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