AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD FirePro M7820

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M7820 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M7820 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +94%

2.176 TFLOPS

FirePro M7820

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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FirePro M7820

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

May 2010

London

Generation

FirePro Mobility

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

Broadway

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

Broadway XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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