Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2025 Nov 2009
Generation Navi IV Evergreen
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1330 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 16GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 644.6GB/s 128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 56 20
Shading Units 3584 1600
TMUs 224 80
ROPs 128 32
Tensor Cores 112
RT Cores 56
L1 Cache 128 KB per Array 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 8 MB 512 KB
L3 Cache 64 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 322.6 GPixel/s 23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 564.5 GTexel/s 58.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 72.25 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 36.13 TFLOPS 2.320 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1129 GFLOPS 464.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Navi 48 Hemlock
GPU Variant Navi 48 XT(215-176600331) Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Architecture RDNA 4.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 4 nm 40 nm
Transistors 53.9 billion 2.154 billion
Die Size 357 mm² 334 mm²
Board Design
TDP 220W 294W
Suggested PSU 550 W 600 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 N/A
Shader Model 6.8 5.0