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GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 7950 3GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 295 makes use of a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 999 MHz on this model. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7950 3GB, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7950 3GB 200 Watts
GeForce GTX 295 289 Watts
Difference: 89 Watts (45%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7950 3GB should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 295 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950 3GB 240000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 295 223776 MB/sec
Difference: 16224 (7%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 will be just a bit (more or less 3%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7950 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB 89600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2560 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is a lot (more or less 26%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7950 3GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6656 (26%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 295 Radeon HD 7950 3GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 8, 2009 January 2012
Code Name G200b Tahiti Pro
Memory 896 MB (x2) 3072 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz (x2) 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz (x2) 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 289 watts 200 watts
Bandwidth 223776 MB/sec 240000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 92160 Mtexels/sec 89600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32256 Mpixels/sec 25600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 (x2) 1792
Texture Mapping Units 80 (x2) 112
Render Output Units 28 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit (x2) 384-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1400 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 295

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 7950 3GB”
Pandore says:

Pas facile de voir la différence , mais avec l'OC de la 7950 elle devient rapidement supérieur a la 295 encore une fois limité ( direct X 10 )

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