NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 7950 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.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7950

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 1250 MHz
1097.9x more texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Around 14% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1792
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 31 January 2012
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1792
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

Around 98% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82144 vs 41523

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	82144 vs 41523

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41523

82144

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7950
Geekbench - OpenCL	41523	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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7950
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA107S	Tahiti
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	31 January 2012
Place in performance rating	520	518
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	1792
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	89.6 GTexel / s
Compute units		28
Floating-point performance		2,867 gflops
Stream Processors		1792
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		300 Watt
Transistor count		4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	240 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore