AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1471MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +217%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2017

Southern Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

56

-

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

210W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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