Radeon RX 570 and Vega 12 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 570

Vega 12

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

GPU code name

Polaris 20 Ellesmere

Vega 12

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

1244 MHz

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Core clock speed

1168 MHz

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Floating-point performance

5,095 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

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Texture fill rate

159.2

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

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DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.0

Vulkan

+

1.3

FreeSync

+

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