AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 7970M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 6% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 850 MHz
• Around 54% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 100 Watt
• 2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 40722 vs 17210

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

• 2.3x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 29.76 GTexel / s
• 2.5x more pipelines: 1280 vs 512
• 2.3x better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 952.3 gflops
• Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 4600 MHz
• Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 496 vs 388
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3569 vs 1420
• Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5094 vs 3112
• Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5094 vs 3112
• Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3692 vs 3168
• Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3692 vs 3168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970M

PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	388 496
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1420 3569
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	40722 17210
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3112 5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3112 5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3168 3692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3168 3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3346 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3346 3339

Compare specifications (specs)