Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon HD 7950

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
Radeon HD 7950
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    182%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    152%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

52% higher gaming performance.
80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 7950
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders2048vs1792
Compute Units32vs28
Core clock926 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 7950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 7950
TDP120 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs31 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    89.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950
    2867.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • Radeon HD 7950
    9130

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • Radeon RX 470
    53
  • Radeon HD 7950
    34

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • Radeon RX 470
    76
  • Radeon HD 7950
    49

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • Radeon RX 470
    51
  • Radeon HD 7950
    35

FPS (higher is better)