AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (375W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +246%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Aug 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

32

-

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

500W

750 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

New Zealand

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

-

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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