NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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NVIDIA A30 PCIe AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +739%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

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Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2012

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

3584

Shading Units

768

224

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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