Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition sales 7 March 2013 at a recommended price of $449 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 240.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 279 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameTahiti
Market segmentDesktop
Release date7 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed800 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors4,313 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate89.60of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power2.867 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs112of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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NVIDIA equivalent

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