GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
RADEON
Radeon R7 M350
CORE STATE
Meso
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1015 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 3.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
R7 M350
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
384
-81.3%
Shaders
2,048
384
-81.3%
TMUs
128
24
-81.3%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
32
6
-81.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1015 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1000 MHz
2 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
4,096
+33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
384 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
16.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
128 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
8.120 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
24.36 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
779.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
48.72 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
779.5 GFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
250 W
—
TDP (W)
250
—
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 3.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Meso
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Gem System
(R7 M300)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
1,550 million
Die Size
352 mm²
125 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
12.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
—
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
—
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
Solar System
Successor
Sea Islands
Polaris Mobile