AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Oct 2018
Generation
Southern Islands
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1330 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
36
Shading Units
1536
2304
TMUs
96
144
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
42.56 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
191.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
6.129 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
383.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
6.129 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038)
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
185W
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-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.