Radeon HD 7970M X2 vs 780M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking339not rated
Place by popularity59not in top-100
Power efficiency83.40no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2025)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code namePhoenixWimbledon
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date31 January 2024 (1 year 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 cores7681280 ×2
Core clock speed800 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed2900 MHzno data
Number of transistors25,390 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate139.268.00 ×2
Floating-point processing power8.909 TFLOPS2.176 TFLOPS ×2
ROPs3232 ×2
TMUs4880 ×2
Ray Tracing Cores12no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8MXM-B (3.0)
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 ×2
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit ×2
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data153.6 GB/s ×2
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 ConnectorsMotherboard DependentPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.86.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.31.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2024 24 April 2012
Chip lithography 4 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 200 Watt

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 11 years, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 780M and Radeon HD 7970M X2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 780M is a desktop card while Radeon HD 7970M X2 is a notebook one.

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