AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon 860M

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon HD 7970

AMD 2012-01
G

AMD Radeon 860M

AMD 2025-03

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2012
Mar 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
Navi III IGP
Type
Desktop
Integrated
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
System Shared
Base Clock
-
600 MHz
Boost Clock
-
3000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
System Shared
Memory Type
GDDR5
System Shared
Memory Bus
384bit
System Shared
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
System Dependent

Render Config

Compute Units
32
8
Shading Units
2048
512
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
8
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
RT Cores
-
8

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
24.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
96.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
3.072 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.144 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Krackan Point
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 3.5
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²
Unknown

Board Design

TDP
250W
15W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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1,209
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