AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G71

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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