AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 630 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 16 November 2007
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 630 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	370.179
PassMark - G2D Mark		254
PassMark - G3D Mark		33

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Tahiti	C73
Launch date	7 March 2013	16 November 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	667	669
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	630 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5