NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +160%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

336

Shading Units

1536

56

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-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

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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