NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +55%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

768

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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