AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

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

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +966%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Jul 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

12

-

4096

Shading Units

768

256

TMUs

48

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

38.40 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

85W

750 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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX LCS

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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