AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Feb 2018
Generation
Southern Islands
Vega
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1063 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1190 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
1024bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
204.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
24
Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
76.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
114.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
3.656 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
228.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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3.656 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Polaris 22
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
VegaM XT(C7398773)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
208 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
100W
Suggested PSU
700 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.