Radeon RX 570 and Radeon HD 7950 Boost - video card comparison
Radeon RX 570
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
June 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1244 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1168 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,095 gflops
3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
159.2
103.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-