AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +2025%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1792

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

90W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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