Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Radeon RX 590 GME

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2012

March 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1420 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,842 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

88.80

204.5

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3