AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and ATI Radeon X1600 PRO 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 X1600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
34x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
6.2x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 780 MHz
36.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3569 vs 99
Around 82% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 496 vs 273

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 April 2012 vs 1 October 2007
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 780 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569 vs 99
PassMark - G2D Mark	496 vs 273

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

2.4x lower typical power consumption: 41 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3569

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

496

273

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569	99
PassMark - G2D Mark	496	273
Geekbench - OpenCL	17210
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 X1600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	R500
Code name	Wimbledon	RV530
Launch date	24 April 2012	1 October 2007
Place in performance rating	605	608
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	41 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	157 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	12.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	780 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0