NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G71

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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