AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 34% higher core clock speed: 1243 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 113.2x more texture fill rate: 239.8 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
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1243 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 239.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2560
  • 3.7x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 2560
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 821
PassMark - G3D Mark 12687
Geekbench - OpenCL 59743
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16433
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16433
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Navi 10 New Zealand
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 31 August 2012
Place in performance rating 175 318
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1499 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 1243 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 479.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.35 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.675 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 2x 2048
Pixel fill rate 95.94 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 239.8 GTexel/s 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 10300 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 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 3x 8-pin
Width IGP
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 16 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 384 GB/s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5