Radeon HD 7970 and HD Graphics 6000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs HD Graphics 6000
Radeon HD 7970
5405
HD Graphics 6000
874
Radeon HD 7970
HD Graphics 6000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Broadwell GT3
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2011
January 2015
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
-
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
48
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
48.00
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
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.80
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
Quick Sync
-
+
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-