Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2012 Apr 2018
Generation Southern Islands Polaris
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1000 MHz 1175 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz 1275 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 112.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 16
Shading Units 2048 1024
TMUs 128 64
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 33.60 GPixel/s 20.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 134.4 GTexel/s 81.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.301 TFLOPS 2.611 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1075 GFLOPS 163.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 2.611 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Polaris 21
GPU Variant Tahiti XT2(215-0821065) Polaris 21 XT(215-0908004)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 3 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 123 mm²
Board Design
TDP 300W 75W
Suggested PSU 700 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4