AMD Radeon R7 265 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

AMD Radeon R7 265

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 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 R7 265 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +50%

2.842 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

24

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x 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 Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 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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