AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 7950

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.2x more boost clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 575 MHz
6.5x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
74.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Launch date	31 January 2012 vs 1 March 2007
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

6.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
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 - G3D Mark		306
PassMark - G2D Mark		309

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Tahiti	G71
Design	AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date	31 January 2012	1 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$99.99
Place in performance rating	519	520
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Price now		$99.99
Value for money (0-100)		3.97
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz	575 MHz
Compute units	28
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792	24
Stream Processors	1792
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	13.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	278 million
Core clock speed		575 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
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	MXM-III
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	240 GB/s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	700 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore