Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K) vs Radeon HD 7950
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K) |
| 185 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. |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 |
| Around 323% higher average synthetic 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950
The Radeon HD 7950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K) | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Spectre () | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 245 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,410 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 512 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 720 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K) | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K) | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
|---|
| TDP | 15 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Jan 2014 | vs | 31 Jan 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)