AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 +44%

4.156 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7950

1917

GeForce GTX 780 +45%

2795

Radeon HD 7950

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

May 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK110

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

2

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

3

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

4

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB

5

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

6

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

7

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

8

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7570

9

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

10

AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early