AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

A2 +59%

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Nov 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA107

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

185W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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