Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon R7 M260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R7 M260
Radeon HD 7970
5405
Radeon R7 M260
511
Radeon HD 7970
Radeon R7 M260
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Opal Pro / Mars
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2011
January 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
980 MHz
Compute units
-
6
Core clock speed
-
715 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
721.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
384
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
118.4
23.52
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+