AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Mar 2019
Generation
Southern Islands
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
1074 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1226 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
28
Shading Units
2048
1792
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
39.23 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
137.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
4.394 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
274.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
4.394 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
Ellesmere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
232 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Polaris 10 LE1
Board Design
TDP
500W
150W
Suggested PSU
900 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.