AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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

Lower TDP (200W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

19968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +3726%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

170

1792

Shading Units

21760

112

TMUs

680

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

GB202

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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