AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 ATI Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 53.12GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +564%

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Nov 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

53.12GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

4

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV670

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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