AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM 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 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +530%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Sep 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

144

96

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF106

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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