AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (1905MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +126%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jun 2012

Navi

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/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

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

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

Board Design

225W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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