Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
January 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1100 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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