AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4730 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), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4730

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 7% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 750 MHz
3.7x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
2.8x more pipelines: 1792 vs 640
3x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 8 June 2009
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 640
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730

Around 82% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4730

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4730
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7497

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4730
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale
Code name	Tahiti	RV770
Launch date	7 March 2013	8 June 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$79
Place in performance rating	601	605
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1792	640
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	956 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	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5