AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 3 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 +495%

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

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

999 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

192

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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