Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 7670 OEM
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs716 million
Shaders512vs480
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock300 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 7670 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs5 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better