AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Jun 2017
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1290 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1468 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
320.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
2560
TMUs
112
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
SM Count
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20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
93.95 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
234.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
7.516 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
234.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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117.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP104
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282)
N17E-G3-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
150W
Suggested PSU
550 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
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
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6.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.