Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon HD 5970
2350
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+