Radeon HD 5570 vs Radeon HD 7970

Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570
Radeon HD 7970
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 7970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5570
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    978%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

211 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970

Around 878% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 7970

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970

The Radeon HD 7970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5570Radeon HD 7970
GPU NameTurks (Turks LE)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders320vs2048
Compute Units4vs32
Core clock650 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs16vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5570Radeon HD 7970
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5570Radeon HD 7970
TDP39 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2011vs22 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    118.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    264.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970
    3789.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5570
    1100
  • Radeon HD 7970
    10760

Points (higher is better)