AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon 8040S

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon HD 7970

AMD 2012-01
G

AMD Radeon 8040S

AMD 2025-01

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2012
Jan 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
Navi Mobile
Type
Desktop
Integrated
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
System Shared
Base Clock
-
1295 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2800 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
System Shared
Memory Type
GDDR5
System Shared
Memory Bus
384bit
System Shared
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
System Dependent

Render Config

Compute Units
32
16
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
8 MB
RT Cores
-
16
L3 Cache
-
64 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
89.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
5.734 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
179.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
11.47 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Strix Halo
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 3.5
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²
308 mm²

Board Design

TDP
250W
55W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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