Product Compare

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2009 Jun 2017
Generation Evergreen Radeon Pro Mac
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1695 MHz
Base Clock 1100 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 217.0GB/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 38.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 58.00 GTexel/s 172.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.320 TFLOPS 5.530 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 464.0 GFLOPS 345.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 5.530 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hemlock Ellesmere
GPU Variant Hemlock XT(215-0735075) Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220)
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 185W
Suggested PSU 600 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
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