Radeon HD 8970 OEM and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Radeon RX Vega 7
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2013
January 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1800 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
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Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
448
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
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Memory bus width
384 Bit
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Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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HDMI
+
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DirectX
12 (11_1)
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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