AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 612 MHz
  • Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 39.2 billion / sec
  • 10x more pipelines: 1280 vs 128
  • 5.6x better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 387.1 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 171 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4.4x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1080 MHz
  • 5.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3569 vs 643
  • Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 496 vs 252
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 April 2012 vs 2 May 2007
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 612 MHz
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s vs 39.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 1280 vs 128
Floating-point performance 2,176 gflops vs 387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 171 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3569 vs 643
PassMark - G2D Mark 496 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3569
643
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
496
252
Name AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 3569 643
PassMark - G2D Mark 496 252
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 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla
Code name Wimbledon G80
Launch date 24 April 2012 2 May 2007
Place in performance rating 615 617
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $829

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 612 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,176 gflops 387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1280 128
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s 39.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 171 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 681 million
CUDA cores 612

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 270 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB / s 103.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 1080 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

SLI