AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1076MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +82%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM200

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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