Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2012 Sep 2014
Generation London GeForce 900
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1753 MHz
Base Clock 1127 MHz
Boost Clock 1216 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1280 2048
TMUs 80 128
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 22.40 GPixel/s 77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 56.00 GTexel/s 155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.792 TFLOPS 4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Wimbledon GM204
GPU Variant Wimbledon PRO GM204-400-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 5.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 398 mm²
Board Design
TDP 75W 165W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU 450 W
Power Connectors 2x 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