AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

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Radeon RX 5700 compared with Radeon RX 7800 XT

	AMDRadeon RX 5700	AMDRadeon RX 7800 XT
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	September 2023
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	AMD
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	RDNA 3
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,304	3,840
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,725 MHz	2,430 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	36 compute units; 144 texture units and 64 ROPs; 10.3 billion transistors. Photo shows MSI's reference-design RX 5700 8G. Current AMD support specifications and MSI's datasheet both list 180 W; historical reviews report differing power figures, which are not used here.	60 compute units, 96 ROPs, 240 texture units; game clock 2124 MHz; 28.1 billion transistors
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	60 second-generation Ray Accelerators
AI cores
AI cores	–	120 AI Accelerators; 74.6 TOPS INT8
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	AMD FSR, Radeon Super Resolution
Cache
Cache	–	64 MB AMD Infinity Cache (second generation)
Base clock
Base clock	1465 MHz base; 1625 MHz game clock	–
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	624 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	14 Gbps GDDR6	GDDR6 at up to 19.5 Gbps; AMD quotes up to 2708 GB/s effective bandwidth with Infinity Cache
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	180 W (better)	263 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	–
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays (MSI RX 5700 8G). AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4a support.	DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI RX 5700 8G)	–
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin	2 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W	700 W
Slot width
Slot width	–	2.5-slot (reference card)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 35 mm and 1020 g (MSI reference-design RX 5700 8G)	267 mm long, 2.5-slot (reference card)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode