ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2009
Feb 2018
Generation
Evergreen
Vega
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
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1063 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1190 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
1024bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
204.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
24
Shading Units
1600
1536
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
76.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
114.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
3.656 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
228.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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3.656 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hemlock
Polaris 22
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
VegaM XT(C7398773)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
5 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
208 mm²
Board Design
TDP
294W
100W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.