AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 415 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 415 OEM 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 GT 415 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 625 MHz
9x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
37.3x more pipelines: 1792 vs 48
22x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 130.56 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
7.5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 3 September 2010
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 48
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 130.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 415 OEM

6.3x lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	32 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 415 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 415 OEM
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		249
PassMark - G3D Mark		251

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 415 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Tahiti	GT216
Launch date	7 March 2013	3 September 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	667	668
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	130.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1792	48
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	32 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	486 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3