Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon HD 7970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 64 vs Radeon HD 7970M
Radeon RX Vega 64
14787
Radeon HD 7970M
3635
Radeon RX Vega 64
Radeon HD 7970M
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Vega
Wimbledon XT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2017
May 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1546 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1630 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
13,353 gflops
2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
395.8
68.00
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
2048 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
945 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
483.8 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.2.131