Radeon HD 7970 X2 and Radeon VE - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Radeon VE
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name
New Zealand
Rage 6
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2012
February 2001
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
3x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
925 MHz
183 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 3,789 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
30 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
0.55
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
366 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_1)
7.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A