AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 10 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (116W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+311%
2.842 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
0.691 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Mar 2011
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1026 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
98.50GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1536
Shading Units
192
96
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
691.2 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
116W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF116
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
GF116-400-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
238 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
