Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon RX 7700 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 7700 XT
Radeon HD 5970
2350
Radeon RX 7700 XT
22925
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon RX 7700 XT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
RDNA 3
GPU code name
Hemlock
Navi 32
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
August 2023
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2544 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1700 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
28,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
3456
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
245 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
549.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
432.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3