AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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Products
GPU AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD · 2013-01
GPU AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 AMD · 2012-01
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Jan 2012
Generation
Sea Islands
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
24
Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.842 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
185W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics 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
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.