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Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon R9 M390X

Intro

The Radeon HD 5970 has a GPU core clock speed of 725 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1600 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M390X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 723 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M390X 125 Watts
Radeon HD 5970 294 Watts
Difference: 169 Watts (135%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5970 should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R9 M390X overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970 256000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 160000 MB/sec
Difference: 96000 (60%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5970 will be a lot (more or less 151%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M390X. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970 232000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 139456 (151%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5970 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970 92800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 69664 (301%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 5970 Radeon R9 M390X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2009 2015
Code Name Hemlock XT Tonga
Memory 1024 MB (x2) 4096 MB
Core Speed 725 MHz (x2) 723 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz (x2) 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 294 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 256000 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 232000 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 92800 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1600 (x2) 2048
Texture Mapping Units 160 (x2) 128
Render Output Units 64 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2154 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 5970

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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