AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition +234%

12.66 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2013

Vega

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

-

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

32

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

25.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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