Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs Radeon R5 220 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R5 220 OEM |
| 181 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition | | Radeon R5 220 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO) | vs | Cedar (Cedar PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | vs | 59 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,313 million | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 1792 | vs | 80 |
| Compute Units | 28 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 112 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition | | Radeon R5 220 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 533 MHz
1066 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition | | Radeon R5 220 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Mar 2013 | vs | 21 Dec 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better