Radeon HD 7970M vs Radeon E8950
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon E8950 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 7970M | | Radeon E8950 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Wimbledon (Wimbledon XT) | vs | Amethyst (E8950) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 366 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 5,000 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 735 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 7970M | | Radeon E8950 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 7970M | | Radeon E8950 | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 95 watts |
| Release Date | 24 Apr 2012 | vs | 29 Sep 2015 |
Radeon HD 7970M
27.20 GP/s
Radeon E8950
23.52 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7970M
68.00 GT/s
Radeon E8950
94.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7970M
153.60 GB/s
Radeon E8950
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 7970M
2176.00 GFLOPs
Radeon E8950
3010.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better