AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (45W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition +36%

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Mar 2013

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

28

896

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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