Product Compare
ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Nov 2009 | Dec 2016 |
| Generation | Evergreen | Radeon Instinct |
| Type | Desktop | Professional |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1000 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1120 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1233 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 1024MB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 128.0GB/s | 224.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | 36 |
| Shading Units | 1600 | 2304 |
| TMUs | 80 | 144 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 23.20 GPixel/s | 39.46 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 58.00 GTexel/s | 177.6 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.320 TFLOPS | 5.682 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 464.0 GFLOPS | 355.1 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 5.682 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Hemlock | Ellesmere |
| GPU Variant | Hemlock XT(215-0735075) | Ellesmere XT |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | GCN 4.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | GlobalFoundries |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 14 nm |
| Transistors | 2.154 billion | 5.7 billion |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | 232 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 294W | 150W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| 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 |