NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +259%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2012

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1792

224

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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