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AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

The AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire (or sometimes called the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 7970 X2) is a combination of two high-end graphics card for big and heavy laptops. Usually, each single card renders a single frame. Therefore, it may suffer from micro stuttering in low fps ranges of 30fps. This happens because of different timespans between two frames (e.g., irregular delays between sequential frames).

The HD 7970M is based on the desktop HD 7870 Pitcairn chip with 1280 1D shaders and 80 texture units. The GCN (graphics core next) architecture supports DirectX11 and OpenGL 4.2. More information on the features of the single 7970M can be found on this page.

The Performance of the two HD 7970M in Crossfire mode is clearly above the GeForce GTX 580M SLI aka. 675M SLI and almost on par with the GeForce GTX 680M SLI. Modern and demanding games like Battlefield 3 are therefore playable in high resolution, max. settings and antialiasing.

The power consumption of the CF combination is very high (2x 100 Watt) and therefore the graphics cards are only suited for very large desktop replacement laptops.

Radeon HD 7900M Series

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire 2560 @ 0.85 GHz2x 256 Bit @ 4800 MHz
Radeon HD 7970M compare 1280 @ 0.85 GHz256 Bit @ 4800 MHz
Radeon HD 7950M compare 1280 @ 0.7 GHz256 Bit @ 4000 MHz
CodenameWimbledon XT
ArchitectureGCN
Pipelines2560 - unified
Core Speed850 MHz
Memory Speed4800 MHz
Memory Bus Width2x 256 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5
Shared Memoryno
APIDirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.2
Power Consumption200 Watt
technology28 nm
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement01.05.2012

Benchmarks

3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 11109     avg: 11119     median: 11119 (10%)     max: 11129 Points
3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +
3DMark 06
min: 25798     avg: 27647     median: 27647 (36%)     max: 29496 Points
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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.

low 1024x768
85.1  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
87.1  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
86.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
84.6  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1366x768
92.5  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
87.5  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
84.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1366x768
242.7  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
237.5  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
194.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1366x768
103.9  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
80.6  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
43.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
high 1366x768
59.8  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
59.6  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Alan Wake

Alan Wake

2012
med. 1366x768
70.7  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
40.4  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Anno 2070

Anno 2070

2011
med. 1366x768
161.5  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
102  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
52.8  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1366x768
84.7  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
75.1  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
64.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1366x768
188.1  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
187.1  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
157.5  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1366x768
141.2  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
131  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
67.9  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1366x768
165  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
97  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
61  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Fifa 12

Fifa 12

2011
med. 1024x768
393.5  fps    + Compare
high 1360x768
347.4  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
342.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
F1 2011

F1 2011

2011
med. 1024x768
90  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
77  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
67  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
high 1366x768
205.7  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
147.3  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Crysis 2

Crysis 2

2011
med. 1024x768
100.2  fps    + Compare
high 1366x768
100.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
95.9  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1360x768
137.3  fps    + Compare
high 1360x768
136.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
119.9  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
med. 1360x768
145.4  fps    + Compare
high 1600x900
132.4  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
54.3  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
lowmed.highultraQHD4K
Max Payne 385.187.186.284.6
Dirt Showdown92.587.584.2
Diablo III242.7237.5194.2
Risen 2: Dark Waters103.980.643.2
Mass Effect 359.859.6
Alan Wake70.740.4
Anno 2070161.510252.8
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim84.775.164.2
CoD: Modern Warfare 3188.1187.1157.5
Battlefield 3141.213167.9
Batman: Arkham City1659761
Fifa 12393.5347.4342.2
F1 2011907767
Deus Ex Human Revolution205.7147.3
Crysis 2100.2100.295.9
StarCraft 2137.3136.2119.9
Metro 2033145.4132.454.3
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