Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2012
April 2017
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1733 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1607 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,176 gflops
8,873 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
277.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
11008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
352.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131