AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 5970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 725 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 18 November 2009
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt vs 300 Watt
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.9x more texture fill rate: 2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Around 79% higher pipelines: 2x 1600 vs 1792
Around 62% better floating-point performance: 2x 2,320.0 gflops vs 2,867 gflops

Texture fill rate	2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1600 vs 1792
Floating-point performance	2x 2,320.0 gflops vs 2,867 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5970

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 5970
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		2301
PassMark - G2D Mark		419
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3977
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3454
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3213
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3213

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 5970
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Tahiti	Hemlock
Launch date	7 March 2013	18 November 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$699
Place in performance rating	611	604
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1792	2x 1600
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	2,154 million
Boost clock speed		725 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm	305 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	2x 128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity