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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | AMD Radeon HD 7970M | ATI Radeon X800 XT |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | GCN 1.0 | R400 |
Code name | Wimbledon | R423 |
Launch date | 24 April 2012 | 1 December 2004 |
Place in performance rating | 623 | 620 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | 1x 6-pin |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_1) | 9.0c |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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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 |