AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS 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

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +7378%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1536

Shading Units

16

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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