AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +119%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

24

768

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Antilles

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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