AMD Radeon RX 570X vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2018
Jun 2012
Generation
Polaris
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1168 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1244 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
28
Shading Units
2048
1792
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
39.81 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
159.2 GTexel/s
103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.095 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
5.095 TFLOPS
3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
318.5 GFLOPS
828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Polaris 20
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
150W
200W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

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