AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and AMD Radeon HD 7550M 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 7970M

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 450 MHz
5.7x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 400
4.5x better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
7.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3569 vs 465
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 496 vs 403
3.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17210 vs 5371

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 April 2012 vs 7 January 2012
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 400
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569 vs 465
PassMark - G2D Mark	496 vs 403
Geekbench - OpenCL	17210 vs 5371

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

7.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3569

465

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

496

403

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17210

5371

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569	465
PassMark - G2D Mark	496	403
Geekbench - OpenCL	17210	5371
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 7970M	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Wimbledon	Thames
Launch date	24 April 2012	7 January 2012
Place in performance rating	591	592
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	400
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	716 million
Boost clock speed		550 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory	0	0