Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (85W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+366%
5733
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
1229
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jan 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
12
2816
Shading Units
768
176
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1229 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
307.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
85W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Tahiti
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
