Radeon 7000 and Polaris 21 - video card comparison

Radeon 7000

Polaris 21

Architecture

Rage 6 (2000−2007)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

RV100

Polaris 21

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2001

Interface

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

183 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

180 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

30 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.55

Memory type

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

366 MHz

Memory bandwidth

2.928 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

7.0

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

1.3

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3