AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD Radeon Pro V520

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro V520 +94%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Dec 2011

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

32

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 12

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 12

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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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