Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs Radeon HD 4550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)
688 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4550 Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 85W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
+1180%
1229
Radeon HD 4550
96
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Sep 2008
Southern Islands
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
655 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
10.48GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
1
768
Shading Units
80
48
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
25.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
1229 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
96.00 GFLOPS
307.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
85W
TDP
25W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.0
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.0
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV710
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
RV710
(215-0725016)
(215-0725016)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
