Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and Sandy Bridge GT1 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Sandy Bridge GT1

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Generation 6.0 (2011)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Sandy Bridge GT1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,229 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

32 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

504 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

Power consumption (TDP)

85 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.1

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A