AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) and AMD Radeon HD 7970 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 1275 MHz vs 925 MHz
• 689.2x more texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 4.6x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
• 5.1x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1375 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970

• 2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
• 1457.3x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
• Around 25% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2276 vs 1826
• Around 68% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34541 vs 20572

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1826 2276
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	20572 34541

Compare specifications (specs)