Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2012 Apr 2012
Generation Southern Islands London
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 925 MHz
Boost Clock 975 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 192.0GB/s 153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 24 20
Shading Units 1536 1280
TMUs 96 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 31.20 GPixel/s 27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 93.60 GTexel/s 68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.995 TFLOPS 2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 748.8 GFLOPS 136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Wimbledon
GPU Variant Tahiti LE(215-0821122) Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 100W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 5.1