GPU Comparison

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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

i

Intel

GPU

Arc A580

CORE STATE DG2-512

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2000 MHz

TDP 175 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Xe-HPG

nm

PROCESS 6 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

34,050

N/A

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,229

geekbench_opencl

N/A

91,657

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

79,381

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7950

A580

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,792

3,072 +71.4%

Shaders

1,792

3,072 +71.4%

TMUs

112

192 +71.4%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

Compute Units

28

—

Execution Units

—

384

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2000 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

8,192 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

768 KB

8 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

192.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.867 TFLOPS

12.29 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

716.8 GFLOPS (1:4)

1.536 TFLOPS (1:8)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

24.58 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

24

XMX Cores

—

384

Power

TDP

200 W

175 W

TDP (W)

200

175 -12.5%

Suggested PSU

550 W

450 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Xe-HPG

GPU Name

Tahiti

DG2-512

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Alchemist (Arc 5)

Process Size

28 nm

6 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

21,700 million

Die Size

352 mm²

406 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

53.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.6

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

278 mm 10.9 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

449 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Xe Graphics

Successor

Sea Islands

Battlemage

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