Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce 310M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs GeForce 310M
Radeon HD 7970
5405
GeForce 310M
118
Radeon HD 7970
GeForce 310M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
N11M-GE1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2011
January 2010
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
606 / 625 MHz
CUDA cores
-
16
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
48.96 gflops
Gigaflops
-
73
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
16
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
14 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
4.848
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
Up to 1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
Power management
-
8.0
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-