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AMD Radeon HD 7950
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon HD 7950 based on its noise and power.
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Released December, 2011
AMD Radeon HD 7970
- 925 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
7.6 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (May, 2012)VTX3D's HD 7970 X-Edition is a highly overclocked HD 7970 using a custom dual fan cooler and a large clock increase to 1050 MHz GPU and 1425 MHz memory.
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Released January, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950
- 800 MHz
- 3 GB GDDR5
7 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Jan, 2012)Thanks to PowerColor's dual fan cooler the card is a lot quieter than the AMD reference design, and runs cooler too - pretty impressive!
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7970 vs 7950 among Desktop GPUs
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher clock speed | 925 MHz | vs | 800 MHz | More than 15% higher clock speed | |||
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| Better floating-point performance | 3,789 GFLOPS | vs | 2,867.2 GFLOPS | More than 30% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 5,500 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | 10% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 264 GB/s | vs | 240 GB/s | 10% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 118.4 GTexel/s | vs | 89.6 GTexel/s | More than 30% higher texture rate | |||
| Higher hitman: absolution framerate | 73 | vs | 49.5 | More than 45% higher hitman: absolution framerate | |||
| More shading units | 2,048 | vs | 1,792 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 128 | vs | 112 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| More compute units | 32 | vs | 28 | 4 more compute units | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,375 MHz | vs | 1,250 MHz | 10% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Slightly better fire strike factor score | 62.9 | vs | 57.91 | Around 10% better fire strike factor score | |||
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| Much better ocean surface simulation score | 1,609.39 frames/s | vs | 261.64 frames/s | Around 6.2x better ocean surface simulation score | |||
| Lower TDP | 200W | vs | 250W | 20% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7970 vs 7950
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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