AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition +18%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jan 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM206

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

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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