AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs ATI FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

ATI FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2260 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

728 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2260 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +2972%

1.229 TFLOPS

FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jan 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

2

-

768

Shading Units

40

48

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

15W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV620

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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