AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 400 MHz
11.2x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 11 August 2005
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

3.1x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
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 - G3D Mark		244
PassMark - G2D Mark		273

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Tahiti	G70
Launch date	7 March 2013	11 August 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$449
Place in performance rating	599	596
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$80
Value for money (0-100)		3.16
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	302 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	279 mm	226 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3