AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +4%

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Nov 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

24

-

1792

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

2

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

3

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 OEM

4

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 380

5

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

6

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

7

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A750

8

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

9

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI FireMV 2260

10

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU