Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon HD 7970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon HD 7970
Radeon RX 5500
9100
Radeon HD 7970
5405
Radeon RX 5500
Radeon HD 7970
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Navi 14
Tahiti XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2019
December 2011
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
118.4
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
264 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12.0 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-