ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2009
Jun 2016
Generation
Evergreen
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1266 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
36
Shading Units
1600
2304
TMUs
80
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hemlock
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
294W
150W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7