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
GEFORCE
GeForce 940MX
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
861 MHz
TDP
23 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
940MX
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
512
-75.0%
Shaders
2,048
512
-75.0%
TMUs
128
32
-75.0%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
32
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
795 MHz
Boost Clock
—
861 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
2,048
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
40.10 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
6.888 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
27.55 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
881.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
27.55 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
250 W
23 W
TDP (W)
250
23
-90.8%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM107
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
GeForce 900M
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
1,870 million
Die Size
352 mm²
148 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
5.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
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
GeForce 800M
Successor
Sea Islands
GeForce 10 Mobile