NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
896 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
Lower TDP (85W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+218%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
1.229 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 900
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
768
104
TMUs
48
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1229 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
307.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
85W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
398 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
