AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 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 late

More VRAM (3GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +976%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jan 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 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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