AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• 910.7x more texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 60-80 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
• 5.6x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

• Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1200-1275 MHz
• Around 75% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1024
• 1102.7x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
• Around 42% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82144 vs 57671
• Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 63.74 vs 56.81
• Around 52% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1177.395 vs 775.281
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.685 vs 4.602
• Around 7% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 69.23 vs 64.428
• Around 34% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 343.81 vs 257.062
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 7988 vs 6571
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 7988 vs 6571
• Around 8% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1914 vs 1779

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	57671 82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	56.81 63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	775.281 1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.602 5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	64.428 69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	257.062 343.81
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6571 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3352 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6571 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3352 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1779 1914

Compare specifications (specs)