AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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 Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1677MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (294W vs 345W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling +492%

13.74 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Nov 2009

Vega

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1406 MHz

Base Clock

-

1677 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

20

-

4096

Shading Units

1600

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

429.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

27.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

858.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

345W

TDP

294W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hemlock

Vega 10 XTX

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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