AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +366%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

36

768

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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