Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs HD 7970M Crossfire

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking337not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.49no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameWimbledon XTNew Zealand
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2012 (12 years ago)31 August 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$899

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 cores25602048
Core clock speed850 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rateno data118.4
Floating-point processing powerno data3.789 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data292 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data3x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data3 GB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data264.0 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, 4x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2012 31 August 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 500 Watt

HD 7970M Crossfire has 150% lower power consumption.

HD 7970 X2, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and Radeon HD 7970 X2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is a notebook card while Radeon HD 7970 X2 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
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