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AMD Radeon HD 5970

The AMD Radeon HD 5970 is a graphics card released on November 18, 2009. It has 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, a boost clock of 725 MHz and a 300 W board power rating. It scores 2,290 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.5 and OpenCL 1.2.

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6/10 key specs recorded · 33 facts

Depth: 31 recorded fields, 4 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, AMD.com Specifications and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark AMD.com Specifications PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

n/a

Memory

2 GB

GDDR5

Boost clock

725 MHz

Board power

300 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon HD 5970 scores 2,290 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 68.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #901), measured across 536 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 417.

PassMark G3D Mark

2,290

Rank #901
Faster than 68.6% of 2,658 GPUs
536 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 62 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 64.7% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 14 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 55.4% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 17 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 46.4% of 1,430 GPUs

GPU Compute 895 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 44.2% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon HD 5970 averages DirectX 9 62 fps, DirectX 10 14 fps, DirectX 11 17 fps and GPU Compute 895 ops/s, across 536 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 2.1 x16

Max memory 2 GB

Core clock 725,725 MHz

Memory clock 1000,1000 MHz

DirectX 11

OpenGL 4.4

Max TDP 294 W

First benchmarked 2012-08-11

Samples 536

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon HD 5970 states the PCIe 2.1 x16 interface, up to 2 GB of memory, a core clock of 725,725 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4, first benchmarked on 2012-08-11. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.