GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon HD 7950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+251%
10070
Radeon HD 7950
2867
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
+462%
11078
Radeon HD 7950
1969
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
+405%
5146
Radeon HD 7950
1019
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 20
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
1792
184
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
89.60 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.867 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Tahiti
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1