Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon R5 Graphics - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon R5 Graphics
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Spectre SL
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
September 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
-
720 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
497 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
388.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
2,410 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
256
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
7.952
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131