AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs ATI Radeon E2400

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and ATI Radeon E2400 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

ATI Radeon E2400

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 600 MHz
28.3x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
32x more pipelines: 1280 vs 40
45.3x better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 48 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
3.4x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
67.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3529 vs 52
Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 506 vs 287

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 April 2012 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 40
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops vs 48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3529 vs 52
PassMark - G2D Mark	506 vs 287

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E2400

4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon E2400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3529

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

287

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	ATI Radeon E2400
PassMark - G3D Mark	3529	52
PassMark - G2D Mark	506	287
Geekbench - OpenCL	22410
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	ATI Radeon E2400
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale
Code name	Wimbledon	RV610
Launch date	24 April 2012	28 June 2007
Place in performance rating	590	568
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops	48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1280	40
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	180 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-II
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0