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Radeon HD 7950 3GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

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The Radeon HD 7950 3GB features a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 160 Watts
Radeon HD 7950 3GB 200 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 7950 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 344064 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB 240000 MB/sec
Difference: 104064 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is quite a bit (about 121%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7950 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB 89600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 108400 (121%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 62400 (244%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 7950 3GB Radeon RX 5600 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year January 2012 January 2020
Code Name Tahiti Pro Navi 10 XLE
Memory 3072 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 200 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 240000 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 89600 Mtexels/sec 198000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 25600 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1792 2304
Texture Mapping Units 112 144
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 4313 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 7950 3GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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