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Radeon HD 7970M

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 21.5% (201st of 714)

Based on 939 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6800 Model: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Poor: 12%Average: 21.5% Great: 24%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD Radeon HD 7970M averaged 78.5% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 26.6fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 27.7fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Radeon HD 7970M is just 12.2%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Radeon HD 7970M performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 26.7fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 34.9fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 939 samples)
Rank 20121.5%
Min Avg Max
14.6 Lighting 26.6 29.6
12.9 Reflection 26.7 31.9
19.1 Parallax 34.9 39.7
21.6% 29.4 fps
Min Avg Max
10.7 MRender 23.9 26.6
13.9 Gravity 25 27
16.1 Splatting 27.7 32.6
21.2% 25.5 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Dell(1028 0550) 2GB
Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
20.6% Poor
Lighting 25.7
Reflection 31.3
Parallax 36.8
21% 31.3 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 27
Splatting 21.1
20% 24.8 fps
Clevo(1558 0371) 2GB
Driver: 22.6.1
20.6% Poor
Lighting 25.6
Reflection 30.9
Parallax 36.8
21% 31.1 fps
MRender 26.5
Gravity 27
Splatting 21.2
20% 24.9 fps
Dell(1028 057B) 2GB
Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
20.4% Poor
Lighting 25.3
Reflection 31.3
Parallax 40.9
21% 32.5 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 26.8
Splatting 21.1
20% 24.8 fps
Dell(1028 0550) 2GB
Driver: 22.6.1
20.3% Poor
Lighting 25.2
Reflection 31.3
Parallax 36.8
20% 31.1 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 26.9
Splatting 21.2
20% 24.8 fps
Clevo(1558 0371) 2GB
Driver: 22.6.1
20.3% Poor
Lighting 25.2
Reflection 30.8
Parallax 36.6
20% 30.9 fps
MRender 26.5
Gravity 26.9
Splatting 21.1
20% 24.8 fps
Dell(1028 057B) 2GB
Driver: 22.6.1
20.3% Poor
Lighting 25.2
Reflection 30.8
Parallax 36.5
20% 30.8 fps
MRender 26.3
Gravity 26.7
Splatting 21.1
20% 24.7 fps
HP(103C 80D6) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 27.20.20913.2000
19.9% Very poor
Lighting 24.9
Reflection 30.7
Parallax 35.6
20% 30.4 fps
MRender 24.5
Gravity 26.3
Splatting 20.5
19% 23.8 fps
Dell(1028 0550) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
19.7% Very poor
Lighting 24.1
Reflection 30.7
Parallax 36.6
20% 30.5 fps
MRender 25.9
Gravity 26.7
Splatting 21.1
20% 24.6 fps
Dell(1028 0551) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
1.02% Terrible
Lighting 1.2
Reflection 0.9
Parallax 0.5
1% 0.87 fps
MRender 1.8
Gravity 0.7
Splatting 1.5
1% 1.33 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Dell(1028 057B) 33% 21% ± 4%
Dell(1028 0550) 20% 21% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 7102) 9% 22% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 0371) 7% 21% ± 4%
Dell(1028 0551) 6% 21% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 5105) 5% 22% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 0376) 4% 22% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0490) 3% 23% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 5102) 3% 22% ± 2%
Dell(1028 043A) 3% 19% ± 5%
Dell(1028 048F) 2% 22% ± 4%
Dell(1028 04BA) 1% 23% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5106) 1% 20% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7481) 1% 21% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 5281) 1% 23% ± 0%
Dell(1028 05AE) 1% 15% ± 7%
Dell(1028 04A4) 0% 13% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0586) 0% 24% ± 0%
Dell(1028 15CD) 0% 12% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 8100) 0% 23% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 0270) 0% 23% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7100) 0% 24% ± 0%
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Gaming 18%
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Desktop
Desktop 70%
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Workstation
Workstation 15%
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System: Alienware M17xR4

CPU
Core i7-3630QMIntel  $420Bench 61%, 65,927 samples242x
Core i7-3610QMIntel  $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples139x
Core i7-3740QMIntel  $220Bench 64%, 14,369 samples77x
GPU
Radeon HD 7970MAMDBench 21%, 939 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples21x
MX500 1TBCrucial  $84Bench 106%, 202,785 samples16x
RAM
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 52%, 422 samples40x
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 50%, 25,458 samples19x
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 2x4GBNanyaBench 51%, 5,366 samples19x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 46% - Average Total price: $520

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2 years ago.

Rather old, but still decent. Great for a Windows Vista - compatible laptop

DEU-User
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Excellent

4 years ago.

Serves me since 8 years, and for the last 7 of them very well. Drivers are in a good state and even today it handles most modern games.

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