AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 172% (2520MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +1534%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2025

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

1792

Shading Units

10752

112

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GB203

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

377 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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