NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +196%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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