Radeon HD 8970M and Vega 10 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M

Vega 10

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

GPU code name

Neptune

Vega 10

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2013

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Boost clock speed

900 MHz

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Core clock speed

850 MHz

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Floating-point performance

2,304 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

12,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

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Texture fill rate

72.00

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3