GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7950

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 560

CORE STATE Polaris 21

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1275 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

34,050

23,597

geekbench_opencl

N/A

16,234

passmark_directx_10

N/A

16

passmark_directx_11

N/A

25

passmark_directx_12

N/A

21

passmark_directx_9

N/A

57

passmark_g2d

N/A

485

passmark_g3d

N/A

3,671

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

1,437

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7950

RX 560

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,792

1,024 -42.9%

Shaders

1,792

1,024 -42.9%

TMUs

112

64 -42.9%

ROPs

32

16 -50.0%

Compute Units

28

16 -42.9%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1275 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

4,096 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

768 KB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

20.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.867 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

716.8 GFLOPS (1:4)

163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)

Power

TDP

200 W

75 W

TDP (W)

200

75 -62.5%

Suggested PSU

550 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GCN 4.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 21

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Polaris (RX 500)

Process Size

28 nm

14 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

3,000 million

Die Size

352 mm²

123 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

GlobalFoundries

Density

12.3M / mm²

24.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.7

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

278 mm 10.9 inches

170 mm 6.7 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

449 USD

99 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Arctic Islands

Successor

Sea Islands

Vega

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