AMD Radeon Pro 5300 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5300 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5300

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 62.3x more texture fill rate: 132.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 5.9x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 500 Watt
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 132.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 500 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • 3.2x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 1280
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 1280
Maximum memory size 2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5300
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name AMD Radeon Pro 5300 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Geekbench - OpenCL 38688
PassMark - G2D Mark 634
PassMark - G3D Mark 7230
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5300 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Navi 14 New Zealand
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 31 August 2012
Place in performance rating 187 319
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz
Compute units 20
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 264.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.448 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.224 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1280 2x 2048
Pixel fill rate 52.80 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Texture fill rate 132.0 GTexel/s 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 3x 8-pin
Length 292 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5