AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs ATI FireGL V7300
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970 and ATI FireGL V7300 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970
- Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- 12.5x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 9.5 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
- 6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
- Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 1375 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Launch date | 22 December 2011 vs 1 October 2005 |
Texture fill rate | 118.4 GTexel / s vs 9.5 GTexel / s |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 90 nm |
Maximum memory size | 3 GB vs 512 MB |
Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz vs 1296 MHz |
Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7300
- 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 97 Watt vs 300 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 97 Watt vs 300 Watt |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7300
Name | AMD Radeon HD 7970 | ATI FireGL V7300 |
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Geekbench - OpenCL | 34541 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 84.413 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1390.592 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 7.336 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 101.929 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 481.76 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 9448 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3704 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3350 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 9448 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3704 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3350 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 2276 | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 128 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 322 |
Compare specifications (specs)
AMD Radeon HD 7970 | ATI FireGL V7300 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | GCN 1.0 | R500 |
Code name | Tahiti | R520 |
Design | AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series | |
Launch date | 22 December 2011 | 1 October 2005 |
Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | $1,599 |
Place in performance rating | 501 | 503 |
Type | Desktop | Workstation |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 925 MHz | |
Floating-point performance | 3,789 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 90 nm |
Pipelines | 2048 | |
Stream Processors | 2048 | |
Texture fill rate | 118.4 GTexel / s | 9.5 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 300 Watt | 97 Watt |
Transistor count | 4,313 million | 321 million |
Core clock speed | 594 MHz | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
DisplayPort support | ||
Dual-link DVI support | ||
Eyefinity | ||
HDMI | ||
VGA | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCIe 2.1 x16 | |
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Length | 274 mm | 229 mm |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin |
API support |
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DirectX | 11 | 9.0c |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 264 GB/s | 41.5 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 384 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz | 1296 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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AMD Eyefinity | ||
CrossFire | ||
FreeSync |