AMD Radeon RX 570X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X +34%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2011

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

32

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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