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

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

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

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

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

Lower TDP (185W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +14%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 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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