Radeon HD 7950M 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 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameTahitiWimbledon
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date31 January 2012 (12 years ago)24 April 2012 (12 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 cores17921280
Compute units28no data
Core clock speedno data700 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,313 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate89.6056.00
Floating-point processing power2.867 TFLOPS1.792 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs11280

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportPCIe 3.0 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth240 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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
Eyefinity+-
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 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2012 24 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 75 Watt

HD 7950 has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

HD 7950M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and 166.7% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 7950M is a notebook one.


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