AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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

Lower TDP (85W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +233%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

32

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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