Radeon HD 7970M X2 vs R8 M445DX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking951not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameMesoWimbledon
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (9 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 cores3201280 ×2
Core clock speed780 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed1021 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,550 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rate20.4268.00 ×2
Floating-point processing power0.6534 TFLOPS2.176 TFLOPS ×2
ROPs832 ×2
TMUs2080 ×2
L1 Cache80 KB320 KB
L2 Cache128 KB512 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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceIGPMXM-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 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

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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.06.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 24 April 2012

R8 M445DX has an age advantage of 4 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R8 M445DX and Radeon HD 7970M X2. We've got no test results to judge.

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