AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro V420

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD Radeon Pro V420

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 32GB VRAM AMD Radeon Pro V420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro V420 's Advantages

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (819.2GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon Pro V420 +267%

13.93 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon Pro V420

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

819.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

64

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.8 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

435.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.85 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.93 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.963 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 20

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 GLXT WS (215-0914026)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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