GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
RADEON
Radeon Pro 5600M
CORE STATE
Navi 12
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1144 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 1.0
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
Pro 5600M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
2,560
+25.0%
Shaders
2,048
2,560
+25.0%
TMUs
128
160
+25.0%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
32
40
+25.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
822 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1144 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
770 MHz
1540 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
8,192
+166.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
394.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
73.22 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
183.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
5.857 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
366.1 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
11.71 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
250 W
50 W
TDP (W)
250
50
-80.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 1.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 12
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Radeon Pro Mac
(Navi Mobile)
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
—
Die Size
352 mm²
—
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
—
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
—
Successor
Sea Islands
—