Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVS 310
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 512MB VRAM NVS 310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
NVS 310 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+2742%
2842
NVS 310
100
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Jun 2012
Southern Islands
Generation
NVS
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
875 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
14.00GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
1536
Shading Units
48
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.046 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.184 GTexel/s
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
100.4 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
8.368 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
20W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF119
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
GF119-825-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1