Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Apr 2012 | Dec 2013 |
| Generation | London | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1625 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 1024MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 153.6GB/s | 104.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | 14 |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 896 |
| TMUs | 80 | 56 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 256 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 27.20 GPixel/s | 17.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 68.00 GTexel/s | 61.60 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.176 TFLOPS | 1.971 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 136.0 GFLOPS | 123.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Wimbledon | Bonaire |
| GPU Variant | Wimbledon XT(216-0836036) | Bonaire XT(215-0839039) |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | GCN 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.8 billion | 2.08 billion |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 100W | 85W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 6-pin |
| Suggested PSU | 250 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.3 |