Radeon HD 7950M and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7950M
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Wimbledon Pro
Tahiti
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
June 2012
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
56.00
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
288 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-