Radeon HD 7970 and Matrox G550 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970

Matrox G550

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

G500 (2001−2005)

GPU code name

Tahiti XT

Condor

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2011

January 2001

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

-

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

125 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

10 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

-

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

118.4

0.25

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

32 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1375 MHz

332 MBps

Memory bandwidth

264 GB/s

2.656 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity

+

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

8.0

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-