AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 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 2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +1265%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

May 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G96C

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

121 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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