Radeon VII and Radeon HD 7950 Boost - video card comparison

Radeon VII

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Vega 20

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2019

June 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1750 MHz

925 MHz

Core clock speed

1400 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

13,230 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

420.0

103.6

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1024 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131