AMD Radeon Pro VII vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

AMD Radeon Pro VII

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro VII and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro VII 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

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

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro VII +410%

13.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro VII

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Mar 2012

Radeon Pro Vega

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

20

-

3840

Shading Units

1280

240

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

108.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

408.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

26.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

6.528 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Vega 20 GLXT WS (215-0914026)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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