Radeon HD 7970 X2 and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Radeon Steam Deck 8CU
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
New Zealand
RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2012
November 2023
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
3x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1900 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2x 3,789 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
512
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
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Texture fill rate
118.4
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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
5500 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
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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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