AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 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 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +187%

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

4

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV670

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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