Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R7 265

Radeon HD 7950
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7950
Radeon R7 265
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 265

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7950
    132%
  • Radeon R7 265
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 7950
    116%
  • Radeon R7 265
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950

16% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 265

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950

The Radeon HD 7950 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7950Radeon R7 265
GPU NameTahiti (Tahiti PRO)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size352 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors4,313 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1792vs1024
Compute Units28vs16
Core clock800 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs112vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7950Radeon R7 265
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7950Radeon R7 265
TDP200 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date31 Jan 2012vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7950
    25.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7950
    89.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7950
    240.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7950
    2867.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7950
    9130
  • Radeon R7 265
    6900

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • Radeon HD 7950
    62
  • Radeon R7 265
    44

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 7950
    23
  • Radeon R7 265
    27

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 7950
    36
  • Radeon R7 265
    29

FPS (higher is better)