AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 74% higher core clock speed: 1605 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
  • Around 40% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 24.769 vs 17.707
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 July 2019 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1605 MHz vs 925 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 24.769 vs 17.707

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • 7x more texture fill rate: 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 304.8 GT/s
Texture fill rate 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 304.8 GT/s

Compare benchmarks

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

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
24.769
17.707
Name AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 16694
PassMark - G2D Mark 929
Geekbench - OpenCL 77086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 252.601
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3949.565
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 24.769 17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 254.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1322.129
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3369
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3369
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9492

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 1.0
Code name Navi 10 New Zealand
Launch date 7 July 2019 31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $400 $899
Place in performance rating 148 318
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1905 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 1605 MHz 925 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 19.51 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.75 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 121.9 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 2560
Texture fill rate 304.8 GT/s 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units 160
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 10.3 B 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 2x 2048

Video outputs and ports

DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin and 1x6 pin 3x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 292 mm

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_1)
Vulkan
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready