AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560 XT and AMD Radeon HD 7950 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.

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7950

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
5.3x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	13 March 2019 vs 31 January 2012
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	6600 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1073 MHz
2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82144 vs 32464

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz vs 1073 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	82144 vs 32464

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

32464

82144

Name	AMD Radeon RX 560 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7950
Geekbench - OpenCL	32464	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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 560 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7950
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Ellesmere	Tahiti
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	13 March 2019	31 January 2012
Place in performance rating	720	527
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1073 MHz	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	973 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	4,313 million
Compute units		28
Floating-point performance		2,867 gflops
Pipelines		1792
Stream Processors		1792
Texture fill rate		89.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory clock speed	6600 MHz	1250 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory bandwidth		240 GB/s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore