Radeon E9550 MXM and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 - video card comparison

Radeon E9550 MXM

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Ellesmere

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2016

January 2012

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1266 MHz

Core clock speed

1120 MHz

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,834 gflops

1,229 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

768

Power consumption (TDP)

95 Watt

85 Watt

Texture fill rate

182.3

38.40

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131