Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2012 Oct 2016
Generation London Arctic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1650 MHz
Base Clock 926 MHz
Boost Clock 1206 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 211.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 28
Shading Units 1280 1792
TMUs 80 112
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 135.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.176 TFLOPS 4.322 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 136.0 GFLOPS 270.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 4.322 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Wimbledon Ellesmere
GPU Variant Wimbledon XT(216-0836036) Polaris 10 PROD
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 120W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4