AMD Radeon RX 580X vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 580X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +166%

6.175 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Nov 2009

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

20

-

2304

Shading Units

1600

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 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

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Hemlock

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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