Radeon R9 295X2 and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 295X2

Radeon RX Vega 7

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

Vesuvius

Vega Raven Ridge

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2014

January 2020

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

2 x 8-pin

-

Boost clock speed

1018 MHz

1800 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 5,733 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

448

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

179.2

-

Memory type

GDDR5

-

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

-

Memory bus width

512 Bit

-

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

-

Memory bandwidth

640 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

+

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

-

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12_1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

2.0

-

OpenGL

4.6

-

Shader Model

6.3

-

Vulkan

+

-

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

LiquidVR

1

-

PowerTune

-

-

TressFX

1

-

TrueAudio

-

-

UVD

+

-

ZeroCore

-

-