AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5450 PCI 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 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +1081%

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5450 PCI

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Radeon HD 5450 PCI

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Feb 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

2

-

768

Shading Units

80

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cedar

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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