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 MX550
CORE STATE
TU117SB
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1320 MHz
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
MX550
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
1,024
-50.0%
Shaders
2,048
1,024
-50.0%
TMUs
128
32
-75.0%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
16
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1320 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
2,048
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
96.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
42.24 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
2.703 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
250 W
25 W
TDP (W)
250
25
-90.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU117SB
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
GeForce MX
(5xx)
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
4,700 million
Die Size
352 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
23.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
7.5
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
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 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
—
Successor
Sea Islands
—