AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
May 2020
Generation
Sea Islands
Radeon Pro Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1400 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1700 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
1020GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
60
Shading Units
2048
3840
TMUs
128
240
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
108.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
408.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
13.06 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
6.528 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
26.11 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Vega 20
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Vega 20 GLXT WS(215-0914026)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.1
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
13.23 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
331 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
250W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
8,984
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
4,369
Blender
—
3,343
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.