AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

AMD Radeon Pro V520

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1600MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro V520 +146%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Nov 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

24

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 12

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 12

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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