Radeon HD 7970M X2 vs GeForce 8200M G

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1488not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameMCP77MV MCP79MVLWimbledon
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (17 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 cores81280 ×2
Core clock speed400 MHz850 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data68.00 ×2
Floating-point processing powerno data2.176 TFLOPS ×2
ROPsno data32 ×2
TMUsno data80 ×2
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).

Interfaceno dataMXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 data2 GB ×2
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit ×2
Memory clock speedno data1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data153.6 GB/s ×2
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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX1012 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (5.1)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan-1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 24 April 2012
Chip lithography 80 nm 28 nm

HD 7970M X2 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

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