Product Compare

ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

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