AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +412%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jun 2017

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/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

102.4 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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