AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs ATI Radeon X800 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and ATI Radeon X800 XT 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 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 70% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 8.5x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.8x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 36.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3559 vs 98
  • Around 82% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 492 vs 271
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 April 2012 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3559 vs 98
PassMark - G2D Mark 492 vs 271

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XT

  • Around 85% lower typical power consumption: 54 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 54 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3559
98
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
492
271
Name AMD Radeon HD 7970M ATI Radeon X800 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 3559 98
PassMark - G2D Mark 492 271
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 X800 XT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R400
Code name Wimbledon R423
Launch date 24 April 2012 1 December 2004
Place in performance rating 624 621
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 54 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 160 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 1x 6-pin

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 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0