AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti Pitcairn
GPU variant Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282) Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 2,800 million
Die size 352 mm² 212 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 22nd, 2012 Mar 27th, 2013
Generation Southern Islands Radeon Sky
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 449 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 118 in our database
Predecessor Northern Islands
Successor Sea Islands

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz
Boost clock 925 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective
GPU clock 950 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 153.6 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1792 1280
TMUs 112 80
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 28 20
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 768 KB 512 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 29.60 GPixel/s 30.40 GPixel/s
Texture rate 103.6 GTexel/s 76.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.315 TFLOPS 2.432 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 828.8 GFLOPS (1:4) 152.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches 242 mm 9.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP 200 W 150 W
Suggested PSU 550 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number C386

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 5.1

Other Features

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