Radeon Graphics vs HD 7950 Boost

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated899
Place by popularitynot in top-10010
Power efficiencyno data9.05
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTahitiRenoir
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 June 2012 (12 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792448
Core clock speed850 MHzno data
Boost clock speed925 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate103.642.00
Floating-point processing power3.315 TFLOPS1.344 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs11228

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length274 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics has a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Boost and Radeon Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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