AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +169%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

12

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

85W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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