AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1247 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 186.8x more texture fill rate: 395.80 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • 2x more pipelines: 8192 vs 2x 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 69% lower typical power consumption: 295 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Launch date 7 August 2017 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1247 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 395.80 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines 8192 vs 2x 2048
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 295 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • 596.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,789 gflops vs 12.7 TFLOPs
  • 2.9x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1890 MHz
  • Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 17.707 vs 14.889
Specifications (specs)
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops vs 12.7 TFLOPs
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.707 vs 14.889

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14.889
17.707
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 14406
PassMark - G2D Mark 801
Geekbench - OpenCL 204168
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 195.478
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2129.009
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.889 17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 129.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1328.033
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7527

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Vega 10 New Zealand
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date 7 August 2017 31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $899
Place in performance rating 172 318
Price now $449.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 41.07

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1546 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1247 MHz 925 MHz
Floating-point performance 12.7 TFLOPs 2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines 8192 2x 2048
Pixel fill rate 98.90 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 4096
Texture fill rate 395.80 GTexel/s 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 295 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 279 mm 292 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 3x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 483.8 GB/s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore