Radeon HD 8730 OEM and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8730 OEM
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2013
June 2012
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
800 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
614.4 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.20
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
288 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-