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Radeon HD 7950 and GeForce GTX 860M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs GeForce GTX 860M

Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 860M
3127

Radeon HD 7950

GeForce GTX 860M


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Tahiti
N15P-GX

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
January 2012
March 2014

Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
915 MHz

Compute units
28
-

Core clock speed
-
797 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1152 or 640

Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
1,389 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
640

Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
75 Watt

Texture fill rate
89.60
43.40

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
Up to 2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
80.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Standard memory configuration
-
GDDR5

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs

eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 3840x2160

LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200

Eyefinity
1
-

Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-

VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 3840x2160

HDCP content protection
-
+

HDMI
+
+

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+

DisplayPort support
-
-

DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
-
1.1.126

Ansel
-
+

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

HD3D
-
-

Optimus
-
+

PowerTune
+
-

TrueAudio
-
-

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+

ZeroCore
+
-