AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +217%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

May 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

1080 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

768

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

171W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G80

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

2

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

3

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

4

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon Pro V320

5

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

6

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

7

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112

8

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

9

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO AGP

10

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!