AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +757%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Aug 2017

Southern Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

56

768

Shading Units

3584

48

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

210W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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