Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2012 | Jan 2015 |
| Generation | Southern Islands | GeForce 900 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1127 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 240.0GB/s | 112.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 24 | |
| Shading Units | 1536 | 1024 |
| TMUs | 96 | 64 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 1024 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 37.70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 88.80 GTexel/s | 75.39 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.842 TFLOPS | 2.413 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 710.4 GFLOPS | 75.39 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | GM206 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti PRO(215-0821056) | GM206-300-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 2.94 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 228 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 185W | 120W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 300 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.4 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |