Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2012 | Aug 2020 |
| Generation | Southern Islands | GeForce MX |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1395 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1575 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 64bit |
| Bandwidth | 264.0GB/s | 80.00GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 896 |
| TMUs | 128 | 56 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 64 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 512 KB |
| SM Count | 14 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 50.40 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 118.4 GTexel/s | 88.20 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.789 TFLOPS | 2.822 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 947.2 GFLOPS | 88.20 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 5.645 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | TU117 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) | N18S-G5 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Turing |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 12 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 4.7 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 250W | 31W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | |
| 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_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 (1.2) | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.170 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (5.1) | 6.6 |
| CUDA | 7.5 | |