AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +357%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +269%

7078

Radeon HD 7950

1917

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

28

-

4096

Shading Units

1792

256

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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