AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Oct 2019
Generation
Sea Islands
Navi
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1845 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
22
Shading Units
2048
1408
TMUs
128
88
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
59.04 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
162.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
5.196 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
324.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
10.39 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 14
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Navi 14 XT(215-0932220)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
6.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
158 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
110W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.