AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +309%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Mar 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

768

Shading Units

1408

48

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU116

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

284 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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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