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.
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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | AMD Radeon HD 7970M | NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Curie |
Code name | Wimbledon | G71 |
Launch date | 24 April 2012 | 18 April 2006 |
Place in performance rating | 624 | 625 |
Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | large |
Supplementary power connectors | None | None |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_1) | 9.0c |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 2.1 |
Memory |
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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 |