AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +101%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

44

1536

Shading Units

2816

96

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vesuvius

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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