AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +251%

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7950

1917

GeForce RTX 2080 +470%

10946

Radeon HD 7950

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Sep 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1792

Shading Units

2944

112

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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