Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking360not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameno dataTahiti
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)22 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores82048
Core clock speed1278 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1050 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data134.4
Floating-point processing powerno data4.301 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 2.1 x16
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data274 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data3 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data288 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity-+
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire-+
FreeSync-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno dataDirectX® 11
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 22 June 2012
Chip lithography 5 nm 28 nm

Apple M1 8-Core GPU has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between M1 8-Core GPU and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 8-Core GPU is a notebook card while Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is a desktop one.


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