AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +1380%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Dec 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1536

Shading Units

64

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 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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