GeForce 7950 GX2 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7950 GX2 vs Radeon RX 590
GeForce 7950 GX2
207
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce 7950 GX2
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
G71
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2006
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.00
222.5
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+