AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +12%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Mar 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

448

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF100

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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