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Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce GTX 780M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs GeForce GTX 780M

Radeon HD 7970
5405
GeForce GTX 780M
3962

Radeon HD 7970

GeForce GTX 780M


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name
Tahiti XT
N14E-GTX

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
December 2011
May 2013

Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
925 MHz
797 MHz

Core clock speed
-
823 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1536

Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
2,448 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1536

Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
122 Watt

Texture fill rate
118.4
102.0

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
160.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Standard memory configuration
-
GDDR5

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

eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 3840x2160

LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200

Eyefinity
+
-

VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 3840x2160

HDCP content protection
-
+

HDMI
+
+

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+

DisplayPort support
-
-

DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 API

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
-
1.1.126

3D Vision / 3DTV Play
-
+

AppAcceleration
-
-

Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+

CrossFire
1
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

HD3D
-
-

Optimus
-
+

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+

ZeroCore
-
-