AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +1005%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Nov 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT215

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

69W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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