Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon R7 370

Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon R7 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5970
    100%
  • Radeon R7 370
    110%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 370

184 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5970 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 10% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 370

The Radeon R7 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5970Radeon R7 370
GPU NameHemlock (Hemlock XT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1600vs1024
Compute Units20vs16
Core clock725 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5970Radeon R7 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5970Radeon R7 370
TDP294 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date18 Nov 2009vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    62.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 370
    1996.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5970
    7410
  • Radeon R7 370
    8210

Points (higher is better)