AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 7950

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm

Launch date	31 January 2012 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

7.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Geekbench - OpenCL	82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	343.81
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1914
PassMark - G2D Mark		308
PassMark - G3D Mark		79

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Tahiti	C78
Design	AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date	31 January 2012	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	527	528
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz
Compute units	28
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	1792
Stream Processors	1792
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	210 million
Core clock speed		500 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	240 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore