AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Nov 2018
Generation
Southern Islands
Radeon Pro Mac
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1200 MHz
Base Clock
—
815 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1190 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
1024bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
307.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
16
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
76.16 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.437 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
152.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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4.874 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
Vega 12
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²
Unknown
GPU Variant
—
Vega 12 XLA
Board Design
TDP
500W
75W
Suggested PSU
900 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.