Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5970
Radeon RX Vega 7
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Hemlock
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2009
January 2020
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1800 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2x 2,320.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
448
Power consumption (TDP)
294 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
58.00
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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