AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and ATI Radeon HD 5970 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: 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) 5 month(s) later
• Around 17% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 725 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3529 vs 2282
• Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 506 vs 418
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5094 vs 3977
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3692 vs 3454
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3339 vs 3213
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5094 vs 3977
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3692 vs 3454
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3339 vs 3213

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5970

• 3.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 68 GTexel / s
• 2.5x more pipelines: 2x 1600 vs 1280
• 2.1x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,320.0 gflops vs 2,176 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5970

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3529 2282
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	506 418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5094 3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3692 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 3213
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5094 3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3692 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 3213

Compare specifications (specs)