Radeon HD 7970 and HD Graphics 3000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs HD Graphics 3000
Radeon HD 7970
5405
HD Graphics 3000
262
Radeon HD 7970
HD Graphics 3000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Sandy Bridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2011
February 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1350 MHz
Core clock speed
-
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
20.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
995 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
12
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
118.4
13.80
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-