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The card's dimensions are 278 mm x 111 mm x 38 mm, and it features a dual-slot cooling solution. Radeon HD 7950 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 800 MHz, memory is running at 1250 MHz (5 Gbps effective).īeing a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon HD 7950 draws power from 2x 6-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 200 W maximum. AMD has paired 3,072 MB GDDR5 memory with the Radeon HD 7950, which are connected using a 384-bit memory interface. It features 1792 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. Unlike the fully unlocked Radeon HD 7970, which uses the same GPU but has all 2048 shaders enabled, AMD has disabled some shading units on the Radeon HD 7950 to reach the product's target shader count. The Tahiti graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 352 mm² and 4,313 million transistors. Even though it supports DirectX 12, the feature level is only 11_1, which can be problematic with newer DirectX 12 titles.
#Amd radeon r7 m260 vs ati radeon hd 7950 pro
Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the Tahiti graphics processor, in its Tahiti PRO variant, the card supports DirectX 12. The Radeon HD 7950 was a high-end graphics card by AMD, launched on January 31st, 2012.