ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 570
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2009
Apr 2017
Generation
Evergreen
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
1168 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1244 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
32
Shading Units
1600
2048
TMUs
80
128
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
39.81 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
159.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
5.095 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
318.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
5.095 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hemlock
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
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 DVI1x 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
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,851
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,770
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
69
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
34
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
52
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
51
GTA 5 1080p
—
100
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.