AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon X1550 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 37.3x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
  • 6.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Launch date 7 March 2013 vs 1 January 2007
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 89.6 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1550

  • 7.4x lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 200 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 27 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1550

Name AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition ATI Radeon X1550
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 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 253

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition ATI Radeon X1550

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R500
Code name Tahiti RV515
Launch date 7 March 2013 1 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $449
Place in performance rating 666 668
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 800 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1792
Texture fill rate 89.6 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 27 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 279 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 240.0 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2