AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Aug 2016
Generation
Southern Islands
Mobility Radeon
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1077 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
256.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
36
Shading Units
2048
2304
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
34.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
155.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
4.963 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
310.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.963 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Ellesmere XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
232 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
100W
Suggested PSU
700 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4