AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 182.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (185W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X +39%

3.973 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Nov 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1425 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

32

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

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

31.04 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Antigua

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

190W

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

2x 6-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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