Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Summary
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8860 OEM |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 7950 Boost | | Radeon HD 8860 OEM | |
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GPU Name | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO2) | vs | Curacao (Curacao PRO) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 352 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
Transistors | 4,313 million | vs | 2,800 million |
Shaders | 1792 | vs | 1280 |
Compute Units | 28 | vs | 20 |
Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 112 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 7950 Boost | | Radeon HD 8860 OEM | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 3072 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 7950 Boost | | Radeon HD 8860 OEM | |
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TDP | 200 watts | vs | 175 watts |
Release Date | 22 Jun 2012 | vs | 8 Jan 2013 |
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
27.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
95.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
74.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
240.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
179.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
3046.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
2368.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better