NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +621%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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