AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

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Radeon RX 5700 compared with Radeon RX 7900 XT

	AMDRadeon RX 5700	AMDRadeon RX 7900 XT
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	December 2022
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	AMD
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	RDNA 3
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,304	5,376
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,725 MHz	2,400 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.	84 compute units, 192 ROPs; game clock 2000 MHz; 58 billion transistors
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	Chiplet design; 5nm Graphics Compute Die with 6nm Memory Cache Dies
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	84 second-generation Ray Accelerators
AI cores
AI cores	–	168 AI Accelerators; 103 TOPS INT8
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	AMD FSR, Radeon Super Resolution
Cache
Cache	–	80 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	20 GB GDDR6 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	320-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	800 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	14 Gbps GDDR6	GDDR6 at up to 20 Gbps; AMD quotes up to 2900 GB/s effective bandwidth with Infinity Cache
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	180 W (better)	315 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 (UHBR 13.5), HDMI 2.1a, USB Type-C
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI RX 5700 8G)	Up to 4K 480 Hz or 8K 165 Hz over DisplayPort 2.1
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin	2 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W	750 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)	276 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