Radeon HD 7950 and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon HD 7950
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
January 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
1178 MHz
Compute units
28
-
Core clock speed
-
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1024
Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
89.60
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
Eyefinity
1
-
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
+
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-