AMD Radeon HD 7970M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

General info

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

366
Place in performance rating
1692
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Value for money (0-100)
0.05
GCN
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Wimbledon
Code name
Tahiti
Laptop
Type
Desktop
1 May 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
22 June 2012
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Launch price (MSRP)
$499
$338
Price now
$512
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Design
reference
2.25
Value for money
no data
Wimbledon XT
GPU code name
no data
Laptop
Market segment
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Technical specs

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

1280
Pipelines
2048
850 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
1050 MHz
2,800 million
Transistor count
4,313 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
100 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
68.00
Texture fill rate
134.4
2,176 gflops
Floating-point performance
4,301 gflops
1280
Pipelines / CUDA cores
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2,800 million
Number of transistors
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100 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
274 mm
None
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
large
Laptop size
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Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16

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 7970M and AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
384 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
153.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
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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 7970M and AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
+
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HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 7970M and AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is the additional functionality.

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CrossFire
+
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FreeSync
+

API support

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

12 (11_1)
DirectX
DirectX® 11
4.6
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 7970M and AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 7970M or AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
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 7970M

16.65% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($338 vs $512)

Less power consumption (100 Watt vs 250 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

More pipelines (2048 vs 1280)

More maximum RAM amount (3 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (288 GB/s vs 153.6 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon HD 7970M or AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 7970M .

AMD Radeon HD 7970M versus AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition performance benchmarks comparison

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