AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1188 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Launch date 1 March 2017 vs 5 June 2006
Core clock speed 1188 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

  • Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 179.0 GTexel / s
  • Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 130 Watt
Texture fill rate 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 179.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 130 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Name AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9309
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9309
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
PassMark - G3D Mark 202
PassMark - G2D Mark 413

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Curie
Code name Ellesmere G71
Launch date 1 March 2017 5 June 2006
Place in performance rating 406 409
Type Workstation Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $599
Price now $54.99
Value for money (0-100) 4.54

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1243 MHz
Core clock speed 1188 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 5,728 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2304
Texture fill rate 179.0 GTexel / s 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 110 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 270 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 2x 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3