Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon R7 350 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon R7 350
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Cape Verde
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
July 2016
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
725 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
819.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
512
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
55 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
25.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
72 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131