AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950

AMD Radeon RX 5700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 +177%

7.949 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7950

1917

Radeon RX 5700 +343%

8497

Radeon HD 7950

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jul 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1465 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

36

-

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

2

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB

3

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCIe x1

4

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600

5

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

6

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

7

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

8

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

9

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon R7 360E

10

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!