Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
Vega Kaby Lake-G
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
January 2018
Boost clock speed
-
1011 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
931 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
65 Watt
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
-
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
-
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
-
Shared memory
-
-
DirectX
11.1
12_1