AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +48%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Aug 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM206

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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