Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon HD 5970
Summary
Radeon RX 480
248%
Radeon HD 5970
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480 |
144 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 148% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports FreeSync |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports TrueAudio |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970 |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480
The Radeon RX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 480 | | Radeon HD 5970 | |
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GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere XT) | vs | Hemlock (Hemlock XT) |
Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 232 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
Transistors | 5,700 million | vs | 2,154 million |
Shaders | 2304 | vs | 1600 |
Compute Units | 36 | vs | 20 |
Core clock | 1120 MHz | vs | 725 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 144 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 480 | | Radeon HD 5970 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
Memory Speed | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 480 | | Radeon HD 5970 | |
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TDP | 150 watts | vs | 294 watts |
Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | vs | 18 Nov 2009 |
Radeon RX 480
40.50 GP/s
Radeon HD 5970
46.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 480
182.30 GT/s
Radeon HD 5970
116.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 480
256.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 5970
256.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 480
5834.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 5970
4640.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon RX 480
18430
Radeon HD 5970
7410
Points (higher is better)