ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Steam Machine GPU

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2009
Jan 2026
Generation
Evergreen
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1000 MHz
2250 MHz
Base Clock
-
1720 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2450 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
28
Shading Units
1600
1792
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
RT Cores
-
28
L3 Cache
-
32 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
156.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
274.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
17.56 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
548.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
35.12 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hemlock
Navi 33
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
RDNA 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
13.3 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
204 mm²

Board Design

TDP
294W
110W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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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 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
6.8