AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 3 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +166%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

854 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

365W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF110

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

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

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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