AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +15%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

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

25.60 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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