AMD Radeon HD 7970

The AMD Radeon HD 7970 is a high-end graphics card for desktop PCs It is based on the Tahiti core. It was the first GPU that was produced in 28nm and supports DirectX 11.1. The 7970 offers 2048 shader cores (1D) of the GCN architecture (first generation) and 128 texture units.

The performance of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 is clearly better than the mobile Radeon HD 7970M (which is based on the Pitcairn with only 1280 shaders). Compared to the GeFore GTX 680, the 7970 is about 8% slower. Therefore, AMD later introduced a 7970 GHz Edition that was clocked at 1000 MHz and performed on the same level as the GeForce GTX 680.

Thanks to Eyefinity up to 6 monitors can be connected to the 7970. The integrated UVD Video-Decoder is able to decode H.264, VC-1 MPEG-2, MVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid) and Adobe Flash videos.

The AMD Radeon HD 7970 is rated with a TDP of 250 Watt.

Manufacturer	AMD
Codename	Tahiti XT
Architecture	GCN
Pipelines	2048 - unified
Core Speed	925 MHz
Memory Speed	5500 MHz
Memory Bus Width	384 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory	3072 MB
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1
Transistor Count	4310 Million
technology	28 nm
Features	Eyefinity, HD3D, CrossFire
Date of Announcement	22.12.2011
Link to Manufacturer Page	http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/g...

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy

26.1 pt (28%)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail) -95%

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X -13%

NVIDIA Quadro P3000 -12%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti -11%

AMD Radeon RX 5500M -11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile -9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q -8%

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 -8%

AMD Radeon R9 M395 -7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti -5%

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M SLI 3%

NVIDIA Quadro P3200 3%

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 3%

NVIDIA Quadro M4000M 4%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M SLI 15%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 16%

AMD Radeon R7 370 16%

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 251%

100%

3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score

14233 Points (19%)

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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics

43795 Points (22%)

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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score

5880 Points (18%)

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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics

6862 Points (16%)

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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Graphics

234474 Points (31%)

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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score

7323 Points (19%)

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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU

7770 Points (13%)

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AMD Radeon HD 6250 -98%

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NVIDIA Quadro K5100M -11%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX SLI -9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q -8%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M -8%

NVIDIA Quadro M2200 -5%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M -3%

AMD Radeon Pro 560X -2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile -1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M -1%

AMD Radeon HD 7970

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) 0%

AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M SLI 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2%

NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Max-Q 5%

NVIDIA Quadro M3000M 7%

AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop) 7%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 7%

NVIDIA Quadro P2000 8%

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 655%

100%

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +

3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +

3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard

106667 Points (56%)

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3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard

29520 Points (43%)

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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Heaven 3.0 - Unigine Heaven 3.0 DX 11

77.8 fps (26%)

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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - Heaven 2.1 high

102 fps (19%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics

7.9 Points (100%)

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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics

7.9 Points (100%)

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Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +

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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.