Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 5570 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon HD 5570
Radeon HD 7970
5405
Radeon HD 5570
493
Radeon HD 7970
Radeon HD 5570
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
February 2010
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
520.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
400
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
13.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
667 - 900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-