
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
New Zealand
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
August 2012
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
3x 8-pin
Core clock speed
850 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
3 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131