AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire vs AMD Radeon HD 7730M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and AMD Radeon HD 7730M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

AMD Radeon HD 7730M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Around 48% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 575 MHz
Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 900 MHz vs 675 MHz
5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 512
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 575 MHz
Boost clock speed	900 MHz vs 675 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 512
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7730M

8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7730M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire	AMD Radeon HD 7730M
PassMark - G3D Mark		778
PassMark - G2D Mark		215
Geekbench - OpenCL		6551
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		15.244
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		289.172
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.524
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		25.319
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		69.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1777
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3220
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1777
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3220
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire	AMD Radeon HD 7730M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN	GCN 1.0
Code name	Neptune CF	Chelsea
Launch date	1 May 2012	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	1157
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	900 MHz	675 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2560	512
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	25 Watt
Floating-point performance		691.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		21.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count		1,500 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Memory
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs