AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD Radeon RX 470
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Aug 2016
Generation
Southern Islands
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
926 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1206 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
211.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
32
Shading Units
1792
2048
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
4.940 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282)
Polaris 10 PRO(215-0876204)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
120W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.