AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +2159%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

8192

48

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

230W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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