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    Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R6 Kaveri

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon R6 Kaveri, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 7950 stacks up against Radeon R6 Kaveri, check out specs charts below.
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    Radeon R6 Kaveri is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Radeon R6 Kaveri is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R6 Kaveri here:

    Radeon R6 Kaveri Laptops

    Main Specs

      Radeon HD 7950 Radeon R6 Kaveri
    Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
    Memory type GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 3 GB
    Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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    • Radeon HD 7950 is used in Desktops, and Radeon R6 Kaveri - in Laptops.
    • Radeon HD 7950 is build with GCN 1.0 architecture, and Radeon R6 Kaveri - with GCN 1.1.
    • Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon R6 Kaveri are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 35−40 0−1
    ultra / 1080p 21−24 −
    QHD / 1440p 16−18 0−1
    4K / 2160p 10−11 −
    low / 720p 60−65 1−2
    medium / 1080p 40−45 0−1
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7950 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 6100% more, than Radeon R6 Kaveri.

    Full Specs

      Radeon HD 7950 Radeon R6 Kaveri
    Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.1
    Code name Tahiti Kaveri
    Type Desktop Laptop
    Release date 31 January 2012 4 June 2014
    Pipelines 1792 384
    Core clock speed 533 MHz
    Boost Clock 1250 MHz 654 MHz
    Transistor count 4,313 million 2410 Million
    Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 89.60
    Floating-point performance 2,867 gflops
    Length 267 mm
    Memory bus width 384 Bit 64/128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 1250 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s
    Shared memory +
    DirectX DirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 5.1
    OpenGL 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2
    Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.56 kh/s
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 381 Mh/s
    Laptop size medium sized
    Eyefinity +
    PowerTune +
    ZeroCore +
    Design reference
    Number of Eyefinity displays 6
    CrossFire +
    Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.78 Gh/s
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 13.86 Mh/s
    Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 250 Sol/s
    Compute units 28
    AppAcceleration +
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