NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +15%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Nov 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

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GTX 960 OEM

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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