NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

-

Shading Units

1440

24

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

108W

TDP

302W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

Hemlock

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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