AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (185W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +14%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Mar 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1536

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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