Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon HD 7970
Summary
Radeon RX 5700
272%
Radeon HD 7970
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5700 |
| 172% higher gaming performance. |
| 70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 RX 5700
The Radeon RX 5700 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 5700 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Navi 10 (Navi 10 Pro) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT) |
| Fab Process | 7 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 254 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 2304 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 36 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 1465 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 256 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 5700 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 5700 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 180 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Jul 2019 | vs | 22 Dec 2011 |
Radeon RX 5700
104.00 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 5700
416.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970
118.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 5700
448.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970
264.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 5700
7480.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970
3789.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
Radeon RX 5700
135
Radeon HD 7970
54
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
Radeon RX 5700
115
Radeon HD 7970
39
FPS (higher is better)