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Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

The Radeon HD 7950 makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 2055 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2190 MHz on this model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 176 Watts
Radeon HD 7950 200 Watts
Difference: 24 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6650 XT should be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7950 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 287072 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7950 240000 MB/sec
Difference: 47072 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT will be much (about 194%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 89600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 173440 (194%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT is much (approximately 414%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7950, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 105920 (414%)

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 Radeon RX 6650 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year January 2012 May 2022
Code Name Tahiti Pro Navi 23
Memory 1536 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 2055 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 4380 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 200 watts 176 watts
Bandwidth 240000 MB/sec 287072 MB/sec
Texel Rate 89600 Mtexels/sec 263040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 25600 Mpixels/sec 131520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1792 2048
Texture Mapping Units 112 128
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 4313 million 11060 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 7950

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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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