
Radeon HD 7970M and FirePro S7100X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970M
FirePro S7100X
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
Amethyst
Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
May 2012
May 2016
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
850 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,176 gflops
2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
92.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131