AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +88%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

16

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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