AMD started Radeon HD 7950 sales 31 January 2012 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 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 12.30% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking	367
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	1.34
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	Tahiti
Market segment	Desktop
Design	reference
Release date	31 January 2012 (12 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Current price	$431 (1x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1792	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Compute units	28
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	4,313 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	89.60	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 7950 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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7950: 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 type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	240 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 7950. 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity	1
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
HDMI	+
DisplayPort support	-

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon HD 7950. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration	+
CrossFire	1
Enduro	-
FreeSync	1
HD3D	-
PowerTune	+
TrueAudio	-
ZeroCore	+

API support

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

DirectX	DirectX® 11
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Mantle	-

Benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

HD 7950 12.30

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

HD 7950 4764

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

HD 7950 7500

Unigine Heaven 4.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark, a newer version of Unigine 3.0 with relatively small differences. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. The benchmark is still sometimes used, despite its significant age, as it was released back in 2013.

Benchmark coverage: 1%

HD 7950 1000

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7950 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Radeon HD 7950's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

AMD Radeon R9 270X 102.6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 100.57

AMD Radeon Sky 500 100

AMD Radeon HD 7950 100

AMD Radeon R9 370 99.11

AMD Radeon HD 7870 97.32

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 95.77

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 7950 is GeForce GTX 760, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.