AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300 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 Quadro FX 1300

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 350 MHz
32x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 128 MB
9.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 550 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 550 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

3.6x lower typical power consumption: 55 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	55 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300
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		34
PassMark - G2D Mark		276

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Tahiti	NV38 A1
Launch date	7 March 2013	9 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$599
Place in performance rating	611	608
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	55 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	135 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	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR