ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (185W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +4%

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

24

-

1600

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

188W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 XT (215-0735033)

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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