Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2012 Oct 2013
Generation Southern Islands Volcanic 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 1625 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 104.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 14
Shading Units 1792 896
TMUs 112 56
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.60 GPixel/s 17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 103.6 GTexel/s 61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.315 TFLOPS 1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 828.8 GFLOPS 123.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Bonaire
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282) Bonaire XTX(215-0839097)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 2.08 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 160 mm²
Board Design
TDP 200W 115W
Suggested PSU 550 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.3