AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +33%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

24

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

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3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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

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5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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