GeForce 7950 GT AGP vs Radeon R9 270X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 7950 GT AGP Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 180W)
Radeon R9 270X Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 7 AGP
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
24
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
180W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x Molex
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G71
GPU Name
Curacao
G71-GT2-H-N-A2
GPU Variant
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
(215-0848004)
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.278 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
196 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.1