AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2019
Jan 2013
Generation
Navi
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1607 MHz
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Boost Clock
1845 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
22
32
Shading Units
1408
2048
TMUs
88
128
ROPs
32
32
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
L1 Cache
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16 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 14
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XTX(215-0932396)
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
158 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
250W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,858
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,298
—
Battlefield 5 1080p
88
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
23
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
43
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
71
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Battlefield 5 2160p
33
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Blender
535
—
Battlefield 5 1440p
64
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GTA 5 2160p
42
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GTA 5 1440p
59
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GTA 5 1080p
124
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.