AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2017
Jun 2012
Generation
Radeon Pro
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1382 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
3GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
2048bit
384bit
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
64
32
Shading Units
4096
2048
TMUs
256
128
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX LCS
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture
GCN 5.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
375W
300W
Suggested PSU
750 W
700 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.