AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1206MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +30%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

28

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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