AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

14848 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +2805%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Sep 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1008GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

128

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

16384

96

TMUs

512

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD102

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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