Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and UHD Graphics - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
UHD Graphics
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Generation 11.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Jasper Lake GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
January 2021
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Ring Bus
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,301 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
10 nm+
Number of transistors
4,313 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
256
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
134.4
12.00
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
384 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-