Radeon RX 5770 vs HD 7970M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking472not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.41no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameWimbledonNavi 10
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores1280no data
Core clock speed850 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate68.00no data
Floating-point processing power2.176 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs80no data

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
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1200 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 225 Watt

HD 7970M has 125% lower power consumption.

RX 5770, on the other hand, has a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970M and Radeon RX 5770. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7970M is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5770 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7970M
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