AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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

Lower TDP (85W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +425%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Dec 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

768

Shading Units

1920

48

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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