ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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 HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +640%

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

Radeon R600

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

24

320

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Tahiti

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

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

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

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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