amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory1792
Cores240 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon HD 7950
nvidia
Brand8GB GDDR5
Memory1920
Cores256.3 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
AMD Radeon HD 7950
Radeon HD 7950
$449 • Jan 2012
GeForce GTX 1070
$379 • Jun 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon HD 7950 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 3 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 200 W | 150 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 800 MHz | 1683 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 240 GB/s | 256.3 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 16nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Pascal |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 1920 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 112 | 120 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 2002 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 25.6 GPixel/s | 107.7 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 89.6 GTexel/s | 256.3 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 2.867 GFLOPS | 6.463 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.75 MB | 2.00 MB |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 314 mm² |
| Transistors | 4313 Million | 7200 Million |
| Required PSU | 550 W | 450 W |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 11.1 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon HD 7950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon HD 7950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon HD 7950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon HD 7950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon HD 7950
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR5
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