Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon R9 370X

Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370X

114 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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5970Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameHemlock (Hemlock XT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1600vs1280
Compute Units20vs24
Core clock725 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5970Radeon R9 370X
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 R9 370X
TDP294 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date18 Nov 2009vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better