Radeon HD 5570 vs Radeon HD 7950
Summary
Radeon HD 5570
100%
Radeon HD 7950
830%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570 |
| 161 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 |
| Around 730% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950
The Radeon HD 7950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5570 | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Turks (Turks LE) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 716 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5570 | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5570 | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
|---|
| TDP | 39 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Oct 2011 | vs | 31 Jan 2012 |
Radeon HD 5570
2.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 7950
25.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5570
10.40 GT/s
Radeon HD 7950
89.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5570
16.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7950
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5570
416.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7950
2867.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5570
1100
Radeon HD 7950
9130
Points (higher is better)