Radeon RX 550 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Lexa
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
June 2012
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
288 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-