Radeon HD 7670 OEM vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    712%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7670 OEM

234 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Around 612% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7670 OEMRadeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameTurks (Turks XT)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders480vs2048
Compute Units6vs32
Core clock800 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7670 OEMRadeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7670 OEMRadeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
TDP66 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2012vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    6.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    19.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    128.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    4096.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    1520
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    10830

Points (higher is better)