Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2012 Aug 2016
Generation Southern Islands Mobility Radeon
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1077 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 36
Shading Units 1792 2304
TMUs 112 144
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 25.60 GPixel/s 34.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 89.60 GTexel/s 155.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.867 TFLOPS 4.963 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 716.8 GFLOPS 310.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 4.963 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Ellesmere
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO(215-0821056) Ellesmere XT
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 200W 100W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4