Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon Graphics 384SP - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970

Radeon Graphics 384SP

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Tahiti XT

Cezanne

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2011

April 2021

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

1700 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

384

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

45 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

40.80

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

384 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1375 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

264 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

+

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_1)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7 (6.4)

Vulkan

-

1.3

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-