NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +12%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

448

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

85W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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