AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Oct 2010
Generation
Southern Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
14
Shading Units
1792
1120
TMUs
112
56
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
89.60 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.867 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.8 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Barts
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
151W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,969
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,019
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