AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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AMD Radeon RX 580 AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +117%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2012

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

24

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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