AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2019
Dec 2010
Generation
Navi
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1500 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1845 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
24
Shading Units
1408
1536
TMUs
88
96
ROPs
32
32
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
L1 Cache
—
8 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 14
Cayman
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XT(215-0932220)
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
40 nm
Transistors
6.4 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
158 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
110W
250W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
Shader Model
6.5
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.