AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 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 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +1721%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

48

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

185W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

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