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    Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire vs Radeon RX 560 mobile

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 560 mobile, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire stacks up against Radeon RX 560 mobile, check out specs charts below.
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    Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 560 mobile are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 560 mobile are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire or Radeon RX 560 mobile here:

    Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire Laptops
    Radeon RX 560 mobile Laptops

    Main Specs

      Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire Radeon RX 560 mobile
    Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 55 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0)
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire has 263% more power consumption, than Radeon RX 560 mobile.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is build with GCN architecture, and Radeon RX 560 mobile - with Polaris.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon RX 560 mobile is 325 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire.
    • Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 560 mobile - by 14 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 560 mobile is 1200 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 35−40 18−20
    ultra / 1080p 21−24 10−11
    QHD / 1440p 16−18 4−5
    4K / 2160p 10−11 4−5
    low / 720p 60−65 35−40
    medium / 1080p 40−45 21−24
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 100% more, than Radeon RX 560 mobile.

    Full Specs

      Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire Radeon RX 560 mobile
    Architecture GCN Polaris
    Code name Wimbledon XT Polaris 11
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 1 May 2012 5 January 2017
    Pipelines 2560 1024
    Core clock speed 850 MHz 1175 MHz
    Boost Clock 1275 MHz
    Transistor count 3,000 million
    Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 14 nm
    Texture fill rate 58.97
    Floating-point performance 2,462 gflops
    Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 6000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0 12 (12_0)
    Shader Model 6.4
    OpenGL 4.6
    OpenCL 2.0
    Vulkan 1.2.131
    FreeSync +
    Laptop size large large
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