AMD Radeon HD 7950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2012
Jun 2017
Generation
London
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1251 MHz
Base Clock
-
1290 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1468 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
320.3GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
93.95 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
56.00 GTexel/s
234.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.792 TFLOPS
7.516 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
117.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
234.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Wimbledon
GP104
GPU Variant
Wimbledon PRO
N17E-G3-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
314 mm²

Board Design

TDP
75W
150W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
-
None

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
-
6.1