Radeon HD 7970 and Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970
Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Tiger Lake Xe
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2011
August 2020
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1350 MHz
Core clock speed
-
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
10 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
80
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
28 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
-
Memory type
GDDR5
-
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
-
Memory bus width
384 Bit
-
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
-
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12_1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
-
Shader Model
5.1
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
Quick Sync
-
+
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-