Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon Pro W5500M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon Pro W5500M, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 7970 stacks up against Radeon Pro W5500M, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 7970 Radeon Pro W5500M
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 85 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 7970 has 252% more power consumption, than Radeon Pro W5500M.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon Pro W5500M uses PCIe 4.0 x8 interface.
  • Radeon Pro W5500M has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 7970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is build with GCN architecture, and Radeon Pro W5500M - with RDNA 1.0.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon Pro W5500M - by 7 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon Pro W5500M is 10625 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 14−16
ultra / 1080p 21−24 8−9
QHD / 1440p 16−18 3−4
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 30−33
medium / 1080p 40−45 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7970 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 140% more, than Radeon Pro W5500M.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 7970 Radeon Pro W5500M
Architecture GCN RDNA 1.0
Code name Tahiti XT Navi 14
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 22 December 2011 10 February 2020
Pipelines 2048 1408
Boost Clock 925 MHz 1450 MHz
Transistor count 4,313 million 6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 7 nm
Texture fill rate 118.4 127.6
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops
Length 274 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz 12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 264 GB/s 192.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 5.1 6.5
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2.131
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
HDMI +
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