AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7950

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 +5%

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

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Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jan 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

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2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 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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