Radeon Instinct Vega vs ATI HD 4700

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRV730Vega 20
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 February 2010 (14 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320no data
Core clock speed600 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors514 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate19.20no data
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs32no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length193 mm267 mm
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2no data
Maximum RAM amount512 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed400 MHz2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 225 Watt

ATI HD 4700 has 350% lower power consumption.

Instinct Vega, on the other hand, has a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4700 and Radeon Instinct Vega. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Radeon HD 4700
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