AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (185W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +5%

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

24

-

1536

Shading Units

1536

96

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

185W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Tahiti

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

389 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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