14 DAY TRIAL // Popular custom notebook manufacturer AVADirect is now taking preorders on notebooks configured with AMD’s most powerful mobile GPU, the AMD Radeon HD 7970M.
The Radeon HD 7970M mobile chip is built with the same architecture as the desktop Radeon HD 7870.
Here, “Pitcairn” has a frequency of only 850 MHz versus the 1 GHz frequency of its desktop brother.
It comes with 1,280 shaders and 80 texture units all using GDDR 5 memory running at 4800 MHZ effective speed.
Compared with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 675M, the AMD Radeon 7970M is clearly superior while being a bit behind the unannounced GTX 680M.
It comes complete with AMD’s UVD3 video decoder, Eyefinity and the power-saving Enduro and ZeroCore technologies.
Other unofficial data suggests that the Radeon HD 7970M is considerably more powerful than a GeForce GTX 580M SLI configuration, while being cheaper and more power-efficient.