AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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AMD Radeon RX 560 XT AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT 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 RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 XT +257%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2012

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1074 MHz

Base Clock

-

1226 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

12

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

137.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

4.394 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.394 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

274.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 LE1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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 (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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