AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 5 March 2012
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.9x more pipelines: 1280 vs 448
Around 54% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1651 vs 1069
6.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 77430 vs 11203

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1280 vs 448
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1651 vs 1069
Geekbench - OpenCL	77430 vs 11203

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

1651

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

77430

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	1651
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	77430
PassMark - G3D Mark		4604
PassMark - G2D Mark		586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		55.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Pitcairn
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	5 March 2012
Place in performance rating	1317	463
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	1280
Floating-point performance		2,560 gflops
Stream Processors		1024
Texture fill rate		80 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		225 Watt
Transistor count		2,800 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1200 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync