AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2016
Mar 2013
Generation
Gem System
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
28
Shading Units
896
1792
TMUs
56
112
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
89.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
2.867 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Emerald
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Emerald XT
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
Unknown
200W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Power Connectors
-
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2
Shader Model
6.5
5.1