AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 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.

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 669 MHz
2.8x more pipelines: 1792 vs 2x 320
3.3x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1656 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 4 April 2008
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 669 MHz
Pipelines	1792 vs 2x 320
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1656 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

2.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 200 Watt

Texture fill rate	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
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		822
PassMark - G2D Mark		422

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale
Code name	Tahiti	RV670
Launch date	7 March 2013	4 April 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$349
Place in performance rating	612	344
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	669 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1792	2x 320
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	2x 53.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3