AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

1692
Place in performance rating
354
0.05
Value for money (0-100)
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GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
Tahiti
Code name
N11E-GT
Desktop
Type
Laptop
22 June 2012
Release date
1 November 2010 (11 years ago)
$499
Launch price (MSRP)
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$512
Price now
$149
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Design
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Value for money
5.57
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GPU code name
N11E-GT
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Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2048
Pipelines
576
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Core clock speed
535 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
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4,313 million
Transistor count
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28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
250 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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134.4
Texture fill rate
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4,301 gflops
Floating-point performance
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
576

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
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274 mm
Length
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1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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Laptop size
large
PCIe 2.1 x16
Bus support
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
3 GB
Maximum RAM amount
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384 Bit
Memory bus width
192 Bit
1500 MHz
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
288 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
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Eyefinity
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HDMI
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI is the additional functionality.

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CrossFire
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FreeSync
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 11
DirectX
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
4.6
OpenGL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

More pipelines (2048 vs 576)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI

12.53% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($149 vs $512)

So, AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI .

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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