Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Vega Renoir

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2012

January 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

975 MHz

1500 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

400 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,995 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

384

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

93.60

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12_1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131