AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2012
Unknown
Generation
Southern Islands
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
128.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
18
Shading Units
2048
1440
TMUs
128
72
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor

GPU Name
New Zealand
Hemlock
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
334 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Hemlock PRO(215-0735443)

Board Design

TDP
500W
302W
Suggested PSU
900 W
700 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
5.0