ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5850

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

672 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +69%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jan 2012

Evergreen

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

12

-

1440

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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