AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 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 FX 5950 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 68% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 475 MHz
47.2x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 950 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 950 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

2.7x lower typical power consumption: 74 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	74 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
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		59
PassMark - G2D Mark		274

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Tahiti	NV38 A1
Launch date	7 March 2013	23 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$499
Place in performance rating	611	609
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	475 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	74 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	279 mm	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	950 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR