AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970 and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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.

AMD Radeon HD 7970

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
11.4x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 10.4 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

Launch date	22 December 2011 vs 10 September 2006
Texture fill rate	118.4 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1375 MHz

Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1375 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	34541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	84.381
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1389.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	8.872
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		151
PassMark - G2D Mark		466

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7970	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	R500
Code name	Tahiti	R580+
Design	AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date	22 December 2011	10 September 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$549
Place in performance rating	483	328
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
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	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	384 million
Core clock speed		650 MHz
Video outputs and ports
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
Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	274 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	264 GB/s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync