AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265X OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +60%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

32

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

New Zealand

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs ATI Radeon X1650 AGP

2

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

3

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

4

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

5

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 360E

6

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 250E

7

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD FirePro D700

8

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

9

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

10

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage