Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Radeon RX Vega 7
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2012
January 2020
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
1800 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,301 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
448
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
134.4
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
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Memory bus width
384 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12_1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.1
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AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
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HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
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