Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Aug 2017 Aug 2012
Generation Vega Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1156 MHz
Boost Clock 1471 MHz
Memory Clock 800 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory Bus 2048bit 384bit
Bandwidth 409.6GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 56 32
Shading Units 3584 2048
TMUs 224 128
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 94.14 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 329.5 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 21.09 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 10.54 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 659.0 GFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Vega 10 New Zealand
GPU Variant Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 12.5 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 495 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 210W 500W
Suggested PSU 550 W 900 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.4 5.1