AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

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AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G71

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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