AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs AMD Radeon R7 265

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 AMD Radeon R7 265

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 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 179.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +50%

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

Radeon R7 265

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Feb 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

16

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

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

29.60 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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

185W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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