Radeon HD 7950M vs HD Graphics 2000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1291not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 6.0 (2011)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameSandy Bridge GT1Wimbledon
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 February 2011 (15 years ago)24 April 2012 (13 years ago)

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 cores481280
Core clock speed850 MHz700 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown75 Watt
Texture fill rate8.10056.00
Floating-point processing power0.1296 TFLOPS1.792 TFLOPS
ROPs132
TMUs680
L1 Cacheno data320 KB
L2 Cacheno data512 KB

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.14.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2011 24 April 2012
Chip lithography 32 nm 28 nm

HD 7950M has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 14% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 2000 and Radeon HD 7950M. We've got no test results to judge.

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