Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 8670M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon HD 8670M
Radeon HD 7970
5405
Radeon HD 8670M
536
Radeon HD 7970
Radeon HD 8670M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Sun
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2011
November 2012
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
825 MHz
Core clock speed
-
775 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
633.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
384
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
118.4
19.50
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
16 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
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-