AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

648 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +610%

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Oct 2008

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

396 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

3

768

Shading Units

120

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV635

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

65W

250 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

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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