Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon R9 280X
Summary
Radeon HD 5970
100%
Radeon R9 280X
147%
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 280X |
| 44 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 47% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 280X
The Radeon R9 280X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5970 | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Hemlock (Hemlock XT) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XTL) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5970 | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5970 | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| TDP | 294 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Nov 2009 | vs | 8 Oct 2013 |
Radeon HD 5970
46.40 GP/s
Radeon R9 280X
27.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
116.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 280X
109.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
256.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 280X
288.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
4640.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280X
3482.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 5970
7410
Radeon R9 280X
10960
Points (higher is better)