Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 540
Radeon HD 5970
2350
Radeon RX 540
2872
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon RX 540
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2009
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
512
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
39.01
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
FreeSync
-
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