NVIDIA GeForce MX570A vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX570A and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce MX570A

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX570A

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 8 month(s) later
34.9x more texture fill rate: 73.92 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
20x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 500 Watt

Launch date	May 2022 vs 31 August 2012
Texture fill rate	73.92 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 500 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 832 MHz
2x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2048
3x more maximum memory size: 2x 3 GB vs 2 GB
3.7x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 832 MHz
Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 2048
Maximum memory size	2x 3 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX570A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX570A	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	382
PassMark - G3D Mark	6055
Geekbench - OpenCL	39567
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX570A	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA107	New Zealand
Launch date	May 2022	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	313	311
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1155 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	73.92 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4.731 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.731 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	46.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	73.92 GTexel/s	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	500 Watt
Floating-point performance		2x 3,789 gflops
Transistor count		4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	3x 8-pin
Length		292 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5