Radeon HD 8870M and Radeon Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8870M
Radeon Vega 7
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Venus
Cezanne
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
December 2012
April 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
775 MHz
1900 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
992.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
9,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
448
Power consumption (TDP)
-
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.00
53.20
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2