Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs HD 8330E

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1232not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.20no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameKalindiTahiti
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 April 2013 (12 years ago)31 January 2012 (13 years ago)

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 cores128768
Core clock speed497 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt85 Watt
Texture fill rate3.97638.40
Floating-point processing power0.1272 TFLOPS1.229 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs848

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared3 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared384 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data240.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2013 31 January 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 85 Watt

HD 8330E has an age advantage of 1 year, and 466.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8330E and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8330E is a notebook graphics card while Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 is a desktop one.

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