Product Compare

ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Unknown Jun 2012
Generation Evergreen Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1250 MHz
Base Clock 850 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 18 28
Shading Units 1440 1792
TMUs 72 112
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 23.20 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 52.20 GTexel/s 103.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.088 TFLOPS 3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hemlock Tahiti
GPU Variant Hemlock PRO(215-0735443) Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282)
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 302W 200W
Suggested PSU 700 W 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.2
Shader Model 5.0 5.1