Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R5 230
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 230 |
| 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 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 7950 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO) | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,313 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 1792 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 28 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 112 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 7950 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 7950 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| TDP | 200 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 31 Jan 2012 | vs | 3 Apr 2014 |
Radeon HD 7950
25.60 GP/s
Radeon R5 230
2.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7950
89.60 GT/s
Radeon R5 230
5.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 7950
240.00 GB/s
Radeon R5 230
10.67 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 7950
2867.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R5 230
200.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better