Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 580		13630 points
Radeon HD 7950		7731 points
	Difference: 5899 (76%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		315 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7950		235 Sol/s
	Difference: 80 (34%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		28 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7950		21 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 580 should theoretically be a little bit better than the Radeon HD 7950 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22144 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 should be much (about 102%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91408 (102%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 is much (more or less 57%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7950, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14624 (57%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.