Radeon RX 470D and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470D

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Ellesmere

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2016

June 2012

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

1050 MHz

Core clock speed

926 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,322 gflops

4,301 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

135.1

134.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

288 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

DisplayPort support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

DirectX® 11

Mantle

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

CrossFire

Enduro

FreeSync

HD3D

PowerTune

TrueAudio

ZeroCore