ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +179%

1.229 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

FireGL

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

12

-

320

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Tahiti

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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