AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1905MHz
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
+157%
9.754 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970 X2
3.789 TFLOPS
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
1605 MHz
Base Clock
-
1905 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
40
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
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 Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
New Zealand
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
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
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
5.1
