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Radeon HD 7950 and GeForce GTX 680 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs GeForce GTX 680

Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 680
5721

Radeon HD 7950

GeForce GTX 680


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name
Tahiti
GK104

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
January 2012
March 2012

Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
Two 6-pin

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
1058 MHz

Compute units
28
-

Core clock speed
-
1006 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1536

Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
3,090.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1536

Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
195 Watt

Texture fill rate
89.60
128.8 billion/sec

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2048 MB

Memory bus width
384 Bit
256-bit GDDR5

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
192.2 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort

Multi monitor support
-
4 displays

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
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.2

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
-
1.1.126

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
-
-

PowerTune
+
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
+
-