Product Compare

AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Feb 2019 Jan 2012
Generation Vega II Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1400 MHz
Boost Clock 1750 MHz
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 16GB 3GB
Memory Type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory Bus 4096bit 384bit
Bandwidth 1020GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 60 32
Shading Units 3840 2048
TMUs 240 128
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 112.0 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 420.0 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 26.88 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 13.44 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 3.360 TFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Vega 20 Tahiti
GPU Variant Vega 20 XT Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 7 nm 28 nm
Transistors 13.23 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 331 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 295W 250W
Suggested PSU 600 W 600 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan 1.3 1.2.170
Shader Model 6.7 6.5 (5.1)
Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy 8923 2310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 4374 1209