Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs Radeon RX 590 GME
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1420MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
2842
Radeon RX 590 GME
+130%
6543
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Mar 2020
Southern Islands
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1257 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1420 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
36
1536
Shading Units
2304
96
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
45.44 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
204.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.543 TFLOPS
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.543 TFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
409.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
175W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTR
(215-0910066)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
