AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7610M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 7610M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7610M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
10x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
4.5x more pipelines: 1792 vs 400
8x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 360.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
3.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 7 January 2012
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 400
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7610M

10x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7610M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 7610M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	370.179
PassMark - G3D Mark		632
PassMark - G2D Mark		479
Geekbench - OpenCL		5257
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2632
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2632
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3339

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 7610M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Tahiti	Whistler
Launch date	7 March 2013	7 January 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	668	672
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1792	400
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0