AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 AGP 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

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 5.280GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 185W)

Score

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

Radeon X1550 AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jan 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

330 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

5.280GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV505

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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