AMD Radeon HD 7970M
VS
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
VS
GeForce GTX 960 OEM

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

366
Place in performance rating
not rated
GCN
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Wimbledon
Code name
no data
Laptop
Type
no data
1 May 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
26 November 2015 (6 years ago)
$338
Price now
$95
2.25
Value for money
no data
Wimbledon XT
GPU code name
GM206
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1280
Pipelines
no data
850 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
2,800 million
Transistor count
no data
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
100 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
68.00
Texture fill rate
76.86
2,176 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
1280
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
no data
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
2,800 million
Number of transistors
2,940 million
100 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
no data

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 GeForce GTX 960 OEM can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
153.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM is the additional functionality.

no data
CUDA
5.2

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
1.1.126
no data
Shader Model
6.4
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 GeForce GTX 960 OEM good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
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

17.76% faster in synthetic tests

More memory bandwidth (153.6 GB/s vs 112.2 GB/s)

Advantages of GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Cheaper ($95 vs $338)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

So, AMD Radeon HD 7970M or GeForce GTX 960 OEM?

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

AMD Radeon HD 7970M versus GeForce GTX 960 OEM performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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