Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon RX 570 X2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970
Radeon RX 570 X2
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
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Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1206 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
154.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
8.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
268.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.0b
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
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