AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire vs AMD Radeon HD 7730M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and AMD Radeon HD 7730M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

  • Around 48% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 512
  • 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 575 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 512
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7730M

  • 8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 200 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7730M

Name AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire AMD Radeon HD 7730M
PassMark - G3D Mark 775
PassMark - G2D Mark 214
Geekbench - OpenCL 6787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 15.244
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 289.172
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.524
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.319
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 69.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1777
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3220
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1777
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3220
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire AMD Radeon HD 7730M

Essentials

Architecture GCN GCN 1.0
Code name Wimbledon XT Chelsea
Launch date 1 May 2012 24 April 2012
Place in performance rating not rated 1154
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2560 512
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 25 Watt
Boost clock speed 675 MHz
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops
Texture fill rate 21.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,500 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size large medium sized
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 11.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Navigation

Choose a GPU

Compare videocards

Compare AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire with others

AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire AMD
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
vs AMD Radeon HD 7730M AMD
Radeon HD 7730M
AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire AMD
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
vs NVIDIA Tesla K10 NVIDIA
Tesla K10
AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire AMD
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire AMD
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire