AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon E9260 MXM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Sep 2016
Generation
Southern Islands
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
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1090 MHz
Boost Clock
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1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
112.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
14
Shading Units
2048
896
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
19.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
57.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
134.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Baffin
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Baffin PRO
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
123 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
50W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.