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Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon HD 7950

Intro

The Geforce GTX 780 features a GPU core speed of 863 MHz, and the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1502 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7950, which has clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 780 10082 points
Radeon HD 7950 7731 points
Difference: 2351 (30%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950 21 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 780 20 Mh/s
Difference: 1 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7950 200 Watts
Geforce GTX 780 250 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 780 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 7950 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780 288384 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7950 240000 MB/sec
Difference: 48384 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 should be quite a bit (about 85%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780 165696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 89600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 76096 (85%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 should be a lot (approximately 62%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7950, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780 41424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15824 (62%)

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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 780 Radeon HD 7950
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2013 January 2012
Code Name GK110 Tahiti Pro
Memory 3072 MB 1536 MB
Core Speed 863 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 200 watts
Bandwidth 288384 MB/sec 240000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 165696 Mtexels/sec 89600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 41424 Mpixels/sec 25600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2304 1792
Texture Mapping Units 192 112
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7080 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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