AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs AMD Radeon Sky 700
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Mar 2013
Generation
Southern Islands
Radeon Sky
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
28
Shading Units
1536
1792
TMUs
96
112
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
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
100.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
3.226 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
806.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Tahiti PRO GL
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
185W
225W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1