AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro M7740

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and ATI FirePro M7740 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

ATI FirePro M7740

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 650 MHz
4.3x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 20.8 GTexel / s
2.8x more pipelines: 1792 vs 640
3.4x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 832.0 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
Around 48% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3384 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 4 August 2009
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 20.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 640
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 3384 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7740

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI FirePro M7740

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI FirePro M7740
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		665
PassMark - G2D Mark		415
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3309

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI FirePro M7740
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale
Code name	Tahiti	M97
Launch date	7 March 2013	4 August 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	599	601
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1792	640
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	20.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	826 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	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	54.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	3384 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0