
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Vega
New Zealand
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2020
August 2012
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
3x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
2100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
118.4
Memory type
-
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
3 GB
Memory bus width
-
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
12_1
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131