AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 and ATI Radeon X700 PRO 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 26.4x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 3.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 24x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 128 MB
  • Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 860 MHz
Launch date 31 January 2012 vs 1 September 2004
Texture fill rate 89.6 GTexel / s vs 3.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz vs 860 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700 PRO

  • 9.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 300 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Name AMD Radeon HD 7950 ATI Radeon X700 PRO
Geekbench - OpenCL 82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 343.81
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1914
PassMark - G3D Mark 76
PassMark - G2D Mark 302

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R400
Code name Tahiti RV410
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date 31 January 2012 1 September 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $449 $179
Place in performance rating 536 538
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1250 MHz
Compute units 28
Floating-point performance 2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 1792
Stream Processors 1792
Texture fill rate 89.6 GTexel / s 3.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 120 million
Core clock speed 425 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 11 9.0b
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s 13.76 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 860 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore