AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX 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 3 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 141W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +161%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jan 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

768

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

141W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

G92B

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

260 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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