Radeon HD 7950 and GeForce GTX 460 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs GeForce GTX 460
Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 460
2330
Radeon HD 7950
GeForce GTX 460
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GF104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
July 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
6-pin & 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Compute units
28
-
Core clock speed
-
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
907.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
336
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
160 Watt
Texture fill rate
89.60
37.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
86.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
+
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-