Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs Radeon R9 380
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (185W vs 190W)
Radeon R9 380 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
2842
Radeon R9 380
+22%
3476
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Jun 2015
Southern Islands
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
28
1536
Shading Units
1792
96
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.04 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.6 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
3.476 TFLOPS
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.476 TFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
217.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
190W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Antigua
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
Antigua PRO
(215-0877000)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
5 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
