AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition +174%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Sep 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1792

Shading Units

336

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF114

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 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

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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