Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Radeon RX 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 560
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 560

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Boost .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Boost

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 560Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin XT)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1024vs1792
Compute Units16vs28
Core clock1090 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 560Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 560Radeon HD 7950 Boost
TDP75 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    76.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    95.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 560
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 560
    2457.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    3046.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better