AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +17%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

28

-

1536

Shading Units

1792

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

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