Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2012 Jan 2012
Generation Southern Islands Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 384bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 32
Shading Units 1792 2048
TMUs 112 128
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 103.6 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.315 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 828.8 GFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Tahiti
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282) Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 200W 250W
Suggested PSU 550 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan 1.2 1.2.170
Shader Model 5.1 6.5 (5.1)