AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM 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 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +635%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

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

902 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

144

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF106

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

106W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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