AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 380 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 380

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • 30.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6134 vs 202
  • Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 654 vs 413
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 June 2015 vs 5 June 2006
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6134 vs 202
PassMark - G2D Mark 654 vs 413

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

  • Around 95% higher texture fill rate: 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 108.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 73% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 190 Watt
  • Around 24% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 970 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 108.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 190 Watt
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 970 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 380
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6134
202
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
654
413
Name AMD Radeon R9 380 NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2
PassMark - G3D Mark 6134 202
PassMark - G2D Mark 654 413
Geekbench - OpenCL 76397
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 58.135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1503.633
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7635
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7635
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2793

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 380 NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Curie
Code name Antigua G71
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date 18 June 2015 5 June 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $599
Place in performance rating 385 382
Price now $264.99 $54.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 31.71 4.54

Technical info

Boost clock speed 970 MHz
Compute units 28
Floating-point performance 3,476 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1792
Stream Processors 1792
Texture fill rate 108.6 GTexel / s 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 190 Watt 110 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 278 million
Core clock speed 500 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length Dual Slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 221 mm 270 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2 x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 182.4 GB/s 2x 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 970 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore