Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 7870 XT - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Vega

Tahiti

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2020

November 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

2100 MHz

975 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,995 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

185 Watt

Texture fill rate

93.60

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12_1

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131