AMD Radeon HD 7950M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950M and AMD Radeon HD 7970M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 7950M

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950M

Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 100 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 700 MHz
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950M	AMD Radeon HD 7970M
PassMark - G3D Mark		3569
PassMark - G2D Mark		496
Geekbench - OpenCL		17210
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		51.181
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1121.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		81.527
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		256.99
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950M	AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Wimbledon	Wimbledon
Launch date	24 April 2012	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	591
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1280	1280
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	2,800 million
Floating-point performance		2,176 gflops
Texture fill rate		68 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Memory bandwidth		153.6 GB / s