AMD Radeon R7 250X vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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AMD Radeon R7 250X AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (80W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +1%

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

85W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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