AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2012
Aug 2017
Generation
Southern Islands
Radeon Pro Mac
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
786 MHz
Base Clock
-
1138 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
402.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
24
56
Shading Units
1536
3584
TMUs
96
224
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
4 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
80.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
8.960 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
17.92 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
495 mm²

Board Design

TDP
185W
210W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4