Radeon HD 7950 Boost Overview
Summary
Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.
The Radeon HD 7950 Boost is a graphics card released by AMD on 22 Jun 2012. The graphics card houses the Tahiti die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_0 architecture which packs 4,313 million transistors on a 28 nm, 352 mm2 die.
Radeon HD 7950 Boost pros and cons |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| Radeon HD 7950 Boost | Radeon R9 270 | Radeon R9 270X | GeForce GTX 760 | Radeon HD 7870 XT |
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| Shader units | 1792 | 1280 | 1280 | 1152 | 1536 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Graphics processor | Tahiti | Curacao | Curacao | GK104 | Tahiti |
| Process size | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Memory | 3072 Mb GDDR5 (1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective) |
| Memory bus width | 384 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 240.00 Gb/s | 179.00 Gb/s | 179.00 Gb/s | 192.00 Gb/s | 192.00 Gb/s |
| Release date | 22 Jun 2012 | 13 Nov 2013 | 8 Oct 2013 | 25 Jun 2013 | 19 Nov 2012 |
Hitman Absolution
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
61
Radeon HD 7870 XT
54
Radeon R9 270X
52
GeForce GTX 760
52
Radeon R9 270
51
FPS (higher is better)
Medal Of Honor Warfighter
GeForce GTX 760
54
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
53
Radeon R9 270X
48
Radeon R9 270
43
FPS (higher is better)
Bioshock Infinite
GeForce GTX 760
64
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
53
Radeon R9 270X
52
Radeon R9 270
51
Radeon HD 7870 XT
49
FPS (higher is better)
Metro Last Light
GeForce GTX 760
41
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
39
Radeon R9 270X
38
Radeon R9 270
36
FPS (higher is better)
Crysis 3
GeForce GTX 760
39
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
34
Radeon R9 270X
33
Radeon HD 7870 XT
31
Radeon R9 270
31
FPS (higher is better)