Radeon Vega 3 Efficient vs HD 7950

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking402not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.47no data
Power efficiency4.24no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameTahitiRaven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date31 January 2012 (12 years ago)26 May 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1792192
Compute units28no data
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate89.6012.00
Floating-point processing power2.867 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs11212

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 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
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Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
PowerTune+-
ZeroCore+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2012 26 May 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 15 Watt

Vega 3 Efficient has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon Vega 3 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.


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