AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 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).

AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 52% higher core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 800 MHz
435.4x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 200 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 7 March 2013
Core clock speed	1219 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.01 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

3.5x more pipelines: 1792 vs 512
2389.2x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs

Pipelines	1792 vs 512
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
PassMark - G2D Mark	368
PassMark - G3D Mark	1857
Geekbench - OpenCL	9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2296
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Cape Verde	Tahiti
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	3rd Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	7 March 2013
Place in performance rating	623	611
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1219 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	1792
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.01 GTexel/s	89.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	1,500 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
Length		279 mm
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
Enduro
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)