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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon 8040S

AMDGPU

GPU AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 1000 MHz – 1050 MHz · 300W Change

AMDGPU

GPU AMD Radeon 8040S 16C · 1295 MHz – 2800 MHz · 55W Change

Specifications

Specs Compare

	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition	AMD Radeon 8040S
Graphics Card
Release Date	Jun 2012	Jan 2025
Generation	Southern Islands	Navi Mobile
Type	Desktop	Integrated
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock	1000 MHz	1295 MHz
Boost Clock	1050 MHz	2800 MHz
Memory Clock	1500 MHz	System Shared
Memory
Memory Size	3GB	System Shared
Memory Type	GDDR5	System Shared
Memory Bus	384bit	System Shared
Bandwidth	288.0GB/s	System Dependent
Render Config
Compute Units	32	16
Shading Units	2048	1024
TMUs	128	64
ROPs	32	32
L1 Cache	16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache	768 KB	8 MB
RT Cores		16
L3 Cache		64 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate	33.60 GPixel/s	89.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	134.4 GTexel/s	179.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)	4.301 TFLOPS	5.734 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)	1075 GFLOPS	179.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)		11.47 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name	Tahiti	Strix Halo
GPU Variant	Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture	GCN 1.0	RDNA 3.5
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC
Process Size	28 nm	4 nm
Transistors	4.313 billion	Unknown
Die Size	352 mm²	308 mm²
Board Design
TDP	300W	55W
Suggested PSU	700 W
Outputs	1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2	Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
Graphics Features
DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.2	1.3
Shader Model	5.1	6.8