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 W5700X
CORE STATE
Navi 10
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2040 MHz
TDP
205 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 1.0
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
Pro W5700X
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
—
1243 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2040 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
16,384
+433.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
130.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
326.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
10.44 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
652.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
20.89 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
250 W
205 W
TDP (W)
250
205
-18.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 1.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 10
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Radeon Pro Mac
(Navi Series)
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
10,300 million
Die Size
352 mm²
251 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
41.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Quad-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
305 mm
12 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b4x Thunderbolt
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Apple MPX
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
999 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
—
Successor
Sea Islands
—