Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega Nano

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2012 Unknown
Generation Southern Islands Vega
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 800 MHz
Base Clock 1247 MHz
Boost Clock 1546 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2
Memory Bus 384bit 2048bit
Bandwidth 264.0GB/s 409.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 64
Shading Units 2048 4096
TMUs 128 256
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 98.94 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 118.4 GTexel/s 395.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.789 TFLOPS 12.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 947.2 GFLOPS 791.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Vega 10
GPU Variant Tahiti XT(215-0821060) Vega 10 XT(215-0894200)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 5.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 12.5 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 495 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 175W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 (1.2) 2.1
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.2
Shader Model 6.5 (5.1) 6.4