AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 345W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1677MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling +219%

13.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2017

Southern Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1406 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1677 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

64

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.3 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

429.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.48 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.74 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

858.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

345W

700 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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