AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and ATI Radeon HD 4730 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 13% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 750 MHz
• 2.8x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
• 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 640
• 2.3x better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
• Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 110 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730

• 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7497 vs 3339
• 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7497 vs 3339

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4730

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 7497

Compare specifications (specs)