AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 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

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
5.7x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
53.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
13.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3559 vs 270
Around 86% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 492 vs 264

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 April 2012 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3559 vs 270
PassMark - G2D Mark	492 vs 264

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

2.2x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3559

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

492

264

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	3559	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	492	264
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 Go 7900 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Wimbledon	G71
Launch date	24 April 2012	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	623	624
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280	24
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		500 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory	0	0