Radeon RX 580 2048SP and Radeon HD 7970M X2 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Radeon HD 7970M X2
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
Wimbledon
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2018
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1284 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1168 MHz
850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
164.4
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
4.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Portable Device Dependent
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.170