AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II Duo to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 475W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1720MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II Duo +450%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jun 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1400 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

64

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.1 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Vega 20

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

475W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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